Title & Author:

Art and modernism in socialist China : unexplored international encounters, 1949-1979 / edited by Shuyu Kong, Julia F. Andrews, and Shengtian Zheng.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

Routledge research in art history

Notes:
Outgrowth of the workshop "Global Art Exchange and Modernism in Socialist China 1949-1979" hosted by David Lam Centre at Simon Fraser University in October 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Julia E. Andrews -- Part 1: Art exchanges. Chile, China, Cuba, a mural and beyond / Shengtian Zheng ; Realism or modernism? : exhibitions of Sesshū and Sino-Japanese artistic exchanges in the 1950s / Yanfei Yin ; An unpublicized graduation exhibition in 1962 : misalignments impacting the Romanian painting class in China / Nan Ma ; A short-lived challenge to socialist realism : Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and other British artists in a little known 1960 exhibition in China / Yuning Teng ; "So are they good artists?" Context and asymmetry in postwar Sino-Italian artistic exchanges / Yang Wang ; The politics of landscape painting : three international art exhibitions in 1970s China / Shuyu Kong -- Part 2: Alternative practices. "Creating a new era in the twentieth century" : Huang Binhong (1865-1955) and modern art during the Cold War / Zaixin Hong ; Tan Huamu's pictorial diaries in the era of the new China / Tao Cai ; A battle between two paths of art? : Huang Xinbo and Modernism during his Hong Kong period / Bin Hu ; The moving image : Ye Qianyu, dance and socialist modernity in art / Claire Roberts ; Decorative pictures : Zhang Ding and Chinese modernism in the 1960s / Xueshan Wu ; The Romanian oil painting training class and modernist undercurrents in Chinese art education of the socialist period / Juliane Noth -- Part 3: Coda. Never forget Mao : the monumental as radical universal OR : the making of a "Maoist modern" / Barbara Mittler.

Summary:

"This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions. The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the frame of interpretation from socialist realism to socialist modernity, this study reveals the plurality of the historical process of developing modernity in China, the autonomy of artistic agency, and the complexity of an art world conditioned, yet not completely confined, by its surrounding political and ideological apparatus. The unexpected global exchanges examined by many of the authors in this study and the divergent approaches, topics, and genres they present add new sources and insights to this research field, revealing an art history that is heterogeneous, pluralistic and multi-layered. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art and politics, and Chinese studies."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032585291 (hardback)
1032585293 (hardback)
9781032585437 (paperback)
1032585439

Subject:

Art and globalization China History 20th century.
Art and society China History 20th century.
Modernism (Art) China.
Socialism and art China.
Art et mondialisation Chine Histoire 20e siècle.
Art et société Chine Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Art) Chine.
Socialisme et art Chine.

Added entries:

Kong, Shuyu, editor.
Andrews, Julia Frances, editor.
Zheng, Shengtian, editor.
Global Art Exchange and Modernism in Socialist China 1949-1979 (Workshop) (2020 : Simon Fraser University)
Routledge research in art history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319793
Call No.: 319793
Copy: 1
Status: Available