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About the Book
The Cultural Revolution was a massive social and political upheaval resulting from a battle for supremacy within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, set in motion by the party’s chairman Mao Zedong. It was also a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, the effects of which still resonate today.
Forty years after the Cultural Revolution, Art in Turmoil revisits the visual and performing arts of the period -- the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing deeply, it examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age.
Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution decode the rhetoric of China’s turbulent decade. The many illustrations in the book, some familiar and some never seen before, also offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.
About the Author(s)
Edited by Richard King with Ralph Croizier, Shengtian Zheng, and Scott Watson (eds.)
Richard King is Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives and Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Victoria.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Vibrant Images of a Turbulent Decade / Richard King and Jan Walls
Part 1: Artists and the State
1) The Art of the Cultural Revolution / Julia F. Andrews
2) Summoning Confucius: Inside Shi Lu’s Imagination / Shelley Drake Hawks
Part 2: Artists Remember: Two Memoirs
3) Brushes Are Weapons: An Art School and Its Artists / Shengtian Zheng
4) When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages / Gu Xiong
Part 3: Meanings Then and Now
5) The Rent Collection Courtyard, Past and Present / Britta Erickson
6) Hu Xian Peasant Painting: From Revolutionary Icon to Market Commodity / Ralph Croizier
Part 4: Beyond the Visual Arts
7) Model Theatrical Works and the Remodelling of the Cultural Revolution / Paul Clark
8) Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women / Bai Di
9) Fantasies of Battle: Making the Militant Hero Prominent / Richard King
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Reviews
In this national convulsion the arts played a strikingly large role, a process described with great care in Art in Turmoil.
- Robert Fulford, "A new level of art criticism," National Post, June 15, 2010
The passage of time and passion, as well as the availability of new materials, bring a new focus to work on the Cultural Revolution. Memoirs of participants put a human face on the decade-long movement. The personal experiences and new documents in Art in Turmoil combine with exquisite scholarship to deepen our understanding of the artistic life of Maoist China.
-- Richard Kraus, author of The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture
There have been many books on the Cultural Revolution within the- field of politics, sociology, and anthropology, but very few largely relevant to the art of the decade available in either Chinese or English. Art in Turmoil will thus be welcomed as playing a pivotal role in constructing a framework for further and wider discussions.”
-- Jiehong Jiang, author of Red: China’s Cultural Revolution
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Asian Studies
Art
History > Other
Cultural Studies
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