Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists--these were also years of extreme isolation from international artistic dialogue. During this period the Chinese Communist Party succeeded in eradicating most of the artistic styles and techniques it found politically repugnant. By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.Through vivid firsthand accounts, Andrews recreates the careers of many individual artists who were forced to submit to a vacillating policy regarding style, technique, medium, and genre. She discusses the cultural controls that the government u

Arts & Photography

Andrews, Julia F.

History & Criticism

University of California Press

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 first 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. This lively, accessible, and beautifully illustrated text will serve and enlighten scholars, students, collectors, and anyone with an interest in Asian art and artists.

The Art of Modern China

Shen, Kuiyi

A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China

New Lower Price Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period--which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community--has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation. Spanning 150 spectacular years of artistic production, A Century in Crisis offers the first systematic exploration of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self-definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention. Sumptuous color plates showcase a dazzling array of achievements--including Shanghai School paintings, modern calligraphy, commercial art, 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, modern guohua (traditional ink and color paintings), socialist realist paintings and other contemporary wor

Guggenheim Museum

New Lower Price Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period--which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community--has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation. Spanning 150 spectacular years of artistic production, A Century in Crisis offers the first systematic exploration of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self-definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention. Sumptuous color plates showcase a dazzling array of achievements--including Shanghai School paintings, modern calligraphy, commercial art, 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, modern guohua (traditional ink and color paintings), socialist realist paintings and other contemporary works.

A Century in Crisis

Kao, Mayching

Spence. Jonathan

This catalogue is published on the occasion of Asia Society Hong Kong Center’s eponymous exhibition, Painting Her Way The Ink Art of Fang Zhaoling, from September 27 to December 31, 2017, the first of ASHK’s 20th Century Chinese Female Artist Series. The book includes a catalogue of all exhibited artworks and seals, as well as three scholarly essays that shed light on the life and artistic trajectory of Fang Zhaoling, the changing social role of women in Republican China, and the importance of Hong Kong to Fang’s career as a painter.

Painting Her Way: The Ink Art of Fang Zhaoling (20th Century Chinese Female Artist)

Individual Artists

Hong Kong University Press

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Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

The Art of Modern China

The Art of Modern China

A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China

A Century in Crisis

Painting Her Way: The Ink Art of Fang Zhaoling (20th Century Chinese Female Artist)