Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
Julia F. Andrews " Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 "
University of California Press; illustrated edition edition | January 12, 1995 | English | ISBN : 0520079817 | 480 Pages
University of California Press; illustrated edition edition | January 12, 1995 | English | ISBN : 0520079817 | 480 Pages
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 By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and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.