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The art of modern China / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2012.Description: xv, 364 p. : ill., map ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780520238145
  • 0520238141
  • 9780520271067
  • 0520271068
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.411.2
LOC classification:
  • N7345 .A535 2012
Contents:
Introduction -- Chinese art in the Age of Imperialism: the Opium War to the Treaty of Shimonoseki, 1842-1895 -- Art in the creation of the new nation: The overthrow of the Qing and the Early Republic, 1895-1920 -- Art in the new culture of the 1920s -- Modern art in the 1930s -- The Golden Age of Guohua in the 1930s -- Art in wartime, 1937-1949 -- Western-style art under Mao, 1949-1966 -- Ink painting, Lianhuanhua, an woodcuts under Mao, 1949-1966 -- Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Art after Mao, 1976-1989 -- Alternative Chinas: Hong Kong and Taiwan -- No u-turn: Chinese art after 1989 -- The New Milennium, and the Chinese Century?
Abstract: In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular attention to the dynamic tension between modernity and tradition, as well as the interplay of global cosmopolitanism and cultural nationalism.
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks N7345 .A535 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 33039001216927

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-353) and index.

Introduction -- Chinese art in the Age of Imperialism: the Opium War to the Treaty of Shimonoseki, 1842-1895 -- Art in the creation of the new nation: The overthrow of the Qing and the Early Republic, 1895-1920 -- Art in the new culture of the 1920s -- Modern art in the 1930s -- The Golden Age of Guohua in the 1930s -- Art in wartime, 1937-1949 -- Western-style art under Mao, 1949-1966 -- Ink painting, Lianhuanhua, an woodcuts under Mao, 1949-1966 -- Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Art after Mao, 1976-1989 -- Alternative Chinas: Hong Kong and Taiwan -- No u-turn: Chinese art after 1989 -- The New Milennium, and the Chinese Century?

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular attention to the dynamic tension between modernity and tradition, as well as the interplay of global cosmopolitanism and cultural nationalism.

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