Origins of the Chinese avant-garde : the modern woodcut movement / Xiaobing Tang.

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Main Title
Origins of the Chinese avant-garde : the modern woodcut movement
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008
Collation
xi, 300 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)
27 cm.
ISBN
9780520249097
Dewey Class
769.951
Contents
Introduction -- The Beautiful Object of Art -- For an Aesthetic Education -- Echoes of a New Calling -- In Pursuit of an Art Movement -- Art Theory as Passionate Discourse on Subjectivity -- The Expressionist Imperative -- In the Whirlpool of Revolution -- To Represent an Epoch -- The New Art Movement and Its Field of Vision -- An Aesthetic of Vigor -- Art and Its Discontent -- Seeing in Black and White -- The Making of the Avant-Garde -- From the Ashes of the First Shanghai War -- 1933: Hangzhou and Beiping -- A Visual Esperanto -- The Avant-Garde and the National Imaginary -- For a Public Art of the Nation -- Guangzhou as Epicenter -- Farewell, Shanghai -- Conclusion: The Origins of Roar, China! On Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art.
Language
English
Subject
Wood-engraving, Chinese -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- China -- History -- 20th century.
BRN
523

Notes

  • "Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and index.

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