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Art in turmoil : the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 / edited by Richard King ; with Ralph Croizier, Shengtian Zheng, and Scott Watson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Chinese studiesPublisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xii, 282 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0774815426
  • 9780774815420
  • 0774815434
  • 9780774815437
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.95109046 22
LOC classification:
  • NX583.A1 A78 2010
Contents:
Vibrant images of a turbulent decade / Richard King and Jan Walls -- Artists and the state. The art of the cultural revolution / Julia F. Andrews ; Summoning Confucius : inside Shi Lu's imagination / Shelley Drake Hawks -- Artists remember : two memoirs. Brushes are weapons : an art school and its artists / Shengtian Zheng ; When we were young : up to the mountains, down to the villages / Gu Xiong -- Meanings then and now. The Rent Collection Courtyard, past and present / Britta Erickson ; Hu Xian peasant painting : from revolutionary icon to market commodity / Ralph Croizier -- Beyond the visual arts. Model theatrical works and the remodelling of the cultural revolution / Paul Clark ; Feminism in the revolutionary model ballets 'The white-haired girl' and 'The red detachment of women' / Bai Di ; Fantasies of battle : making the militant hero prominent / Richard King.
Summary: "Forty years after the Cultural Revolution, Art in Turmoil revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing deeply, it examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age.Summary: Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution decode the rhetoric of China's turbulent decade. The many illustrations in the book, some familiar and some never seen before, also offer new insights into works that have transcended their times."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.

Vibrant images of a turbulent decade / Richard King and Jan Walls -- Artists and the state. The art of the cultural revolution / Julia F. Andrews ; Summoning Confucius : inside Shi Lu's imagination / Shelley Drake Hawks -- Artists remember : two memoirs. Brushes are weapons : an art school and its artists / Shengtian Zheng ; When we were young : up to the mountains, down to the villages / Gu Xiong -- Meanings then and now. The Rent Collection Courtyard, past and present / Britta Erickson ; Hu Xian peasant painting : from revolutionary icon to market commodity / Ralph Croizier -- Beyond the visual arts. Model theatrical works and the remodelling of the cultural revolution / Paul Clark ; Feminism in the revolutionary model ballets 'The white-haired girl' and 'The red detachment of women' / Bai Di ; Fantasies of battle : making the militant hero prominent / Richard King.

"Forty years after the Cultural Revolution, Art in Turmoil revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing deeply, it examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age.

Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution decode the rhetoric of China's turbulent decade. The many illustrations in the book, some familiar and some never seen before, also offer new insights into works that have transcended their times."--BOOK JACKET.

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