Drawing from Life

Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-02-11
Mått178 x 254 x 23 mm
Vikt998 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520309623

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Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: DRAWING CONCEPTS1. Within the Studio: Drawing Pedagogy, European-Soviet Transnationalism, and Academic Realism 2. Going into Life: The Anti-Academic Impulse, Social Investigation, and the Peasant Portrait 3. A Socialist Huang Gongwang: Between Brushstroke and Wash, between Brush-and-Ink and Watercolor Sketching PART TWO: SKETCHING NEW CHINA4. Going into the Construction Landscape: Sketching Labor and Panoramas of the Maoist Technological Sublime 5. Going into Revolutionary History: Military Landscape, Authenticity, and the Impressionism Salons 6. Going into the World: The Artist as Diplomat 7. In Search of Revolutionary Romanticism: Great Famine and the Collective Landscape of New China Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index