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China! New Art & Artists
Diane Tong
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Description for China! New Art & Artists
Num Pages: 256 pages, 324 color images. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1852.
When the Cultural Revolution ended in China, the long-repressed artists and writers reemerged. In art, particularly, they began to move away from the Romantic-Realism used in the propaganda art of the 1960s and 1970s, to experiment with new forms and techniques. Influenced by the Western modernist and post-modernist art that was entering the country as part of the "Cultural Discussion," they continued to bring a humanistic, political edge to their work. By the mid-1980s an active, experimental art movement appeared in China, which one critic dubbed the "85 New Wave." Among the young artists were Mao Xu ... Read more
When the Cultural Revolution ended in China, the long-repressed artists and writers reemerged. In art, particularly, they began to move away from the Romantic-Realism used in the propaganda art of the 1960s and 1970s, to experiment with new forms and techniques. Influenced by the Western modernist and post-modernist art that was entering the country as part of the "Cultural Discussion," they continued to bring a humanistic, political edge to their work. By the mid-1980s an active, experimental art movement appeared in China, which one critic dubbed the "85 New Wave." Among the young artists were Mao Xu ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764323249
SKU
V9780764323249
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About Diane Tong
Dian Tong, an historian of Chinese art and the owner of the Tao Water Gallery in Barnstable, Massachusetts, specializes in the work of Chinese artists. She began work on this book during the China/Avant Garde exhibition in Beijing in 1989, but after the Tiananmen Square incident, she had to abandon the work and her notes as she moved to the ... Read more
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