| Description |
xii, 282 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Contemporary Chinese studies,
1206-9523
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Contemporary Chinese studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Vibrant images of a turbulent decade / Richard King and Jan Walls -- The art of the cultural revolution / Julia F. Andrews -- Summoning Confucius : inside Shi Lu's imagination / Shelley Drake Hawks -- 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 -- The Rent collection courtyard, past and present / Britta Erickson -- Hu Xian peasant painting : from revolutionary icon to market commodity / Ralph Croizier -- 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Arts, Chinese -- 20th century.
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Arts, Chinese. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
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Artists -- China -- Biography.
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Artists. |
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China. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
King, Richard, 1951 February 5-
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Croizier, Ralph C.
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Watson, Scott, 1950-
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Zheng, Sheng Tian, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780774815420 bound |
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0774815426 bound |
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0774815434 |
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9780774815437 |
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