Drawing from life : sketching and socialist realism in the People's Republic of China / Christine I. Ho

Author(s): Ho, Christine I., 1982-

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Main Title
Drawing from life : sketching and socialist realism in the People's Republic of China
Author(s)
Ho, Christine I., 1982-
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020
Collation
308 pages : illustrations (some color)
26 cm
ISBN
9780520309623
Dewey Class
709.51
Contents
Introduction -- Part One: Drawing Concepts. 1. Within the Studio: Drawing Pedagogy, European-Soviety Transnationalism, and Academic Realism -- 2. Going into Life: The Anti-Academic Impulse, Social Investigation, and the Peasant Portrait -- A Socialist Huang Gongwang: Between Brushstroke and Wash, between Brush-and-Ink and Watercolor Sketching -- Part Two: Sketching New China. 4. 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.
Language
English
Subject
Art, Chinese -- 20th century
BRN
9891

Notes

  • Includes artwork illustrations by Qian Songyan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Xu Beihong, Li Hu, Zhu Naizheng, Zhao Shusong, Ge Weimo, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Hu Peiheng, Zhang Ding, Li Xiongcai, Yan Han, Zhang Xuefu, Zhang Wenjun, Dong Xiwen, Liu Haisu, Maruki Toshi, Fu Baoshi, Guan Liang, Song Wenzhi, Qian Songyan, Wan Qingli.

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