"That Julia Andrews has reached sources that are so sensitive and difficult with such success is remarkable. The book is unquestionably a brilliant job, well-written, understandable, and of enormous scholarly value."--Joan Lebold Cohen, author of "The New Chinese Painting"
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"That Julia Andrews has reached sources that are so sensitive and difficult with such success is remarkable. The book is unquestionably a brilliant job, well-written, understandable, and of enormous scholarly value."--Joan Lebold Cohen, author of "The New Chinese Painting"
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Add this copy of Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China to cart. $97.50, very good condition, Sold by West Side Book Shop, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ann Arbor, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by University of California Press.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Quarto. xvi + 568 pp, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, acknowledgments, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 7 titled Chapters, Appendixes 1-4, Notes, List of Chinese Names and Terms, Selected Bibliography, list of 138 figures, list of 12 Plates. Index. Binding tight, pages unmarked. No external wear. 7.1" x 10.25" gray cloth boards, gilt spine letters, in illustrated DJ-unclipped, in acetate protector.
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VG/G+, ex-library. DJ has some tearing at spine, label on spine. Stamp on ffep, back flyleaf has pocket. Stamps on text block. Pages clean and tight. Mylar covered, illustrated dj; green cloth covers. xv, 568 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color). Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists-these were also years of extreme isolation from international artistic dialogue. During this period the Chinese Communist Party succeeded in eradicating most of the artistic styles and techniques it found politically repugnant. By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Through vivid firsthand accounts, Andrews recreates the careers of many individual artists who were forced to submit to a vacillating policy regarding style, technique, medium, and genre. She discusses the cultural controls that the government used, the ways in which artists responded, and the works of art that emerged as a result. She particularly emphasizes the influence of the Soviet Union on Chinese art and the problems it created for the practice of traditional painting. This book opens the way to new, stimulating comparisons of Western and Eastern cultures and will be welcomed by art historians, political scientists, and scholars of Asia. Publisher's description. Contents: Revolutionaries and academics: art of the Republican period--The return of Chinese art, 1949-1952--From popularization to specialization--The politicization of Guohua--The Great Leap forward and its aftermath: "more, faster, better, cheaper"--The Cultural Revolution--The transition to "artistic democracy, " 1976-1979--Appendixes. National Arts Administration, 1949; National Arts Administration, 1960; National Arts Administration, 1979; Oil painters in the Soviet manner.
