Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979

Author:   Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University, Canada) ,  Julia F. Andrews (Ohio State University, USA) ,  Shengtian Zheng (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032585437


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

Our Price $119.00 Quantity:  
Pre-Order

Share |

Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979


Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University, Canada) ,  Julia F. Andrews (Ohio State University, USA) ,  Shengtian Zheng (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032585437


ISBN 10:   1032585439
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Art Exchanges 1. Chile, China, Cuba: A Mural and Beyond 2.Realism or Modernism? Exhibitions of Sesshū and Sino-Japanese Artistic Exchanges in the 1950s 3. An Unpublicized Graduation Exhibition in 1962: Misalignments Impacting the Romanian Painting Class in China 4. A Short-Lived Challenge to Socialist Realism: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Other British Artists in a Little Known 1960 Exhibition in China 5. ""So Are They Good Artists?"": Context and Asymmetry in Postwar Sino-Italian Artistic Exchanges 6. The Politics of Landscape Painting: Three International Art Exhibitions in 1970s China Part II: Alternative Practices 7. “Creating A New Era in the Twentieth Century”: Huang Binhong (1865-1955) and Modern Art during the Cold War 8.Tan Huamu’s Pictorial Diaries in the Era of the New China 9. A Battle between Two Paths of Art? Huang Xinbo and Modernism during his Hong Kong Period 10. The Moving Image: Ye Qianyu, Dance and Socialist Modernity in Art 11. Decorative Pictures: Zhang Ding and Chinese Modernism in the 1960s 12. The Romanian Oil Painting Training Class and Modernist Undercurrents in Chinese Art Education of the Socialist Period Part III: Coda 13. Never forget Mao: The Monumental as Radical Universal OR: The Making of a “Maoist Modern”

Reviews

Author Information

Shuyu Kong is Professor of Chinese Studies and Co-director of the David Lam Centre for International Communication at Simon Fraser University. Julia F. Andrews is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at The Ohio State University. Shengtian Zheng is Adjunct Director of the Institute of Asian Art, Vancouver Art Gallery and Research Associate at Simon Fraser University.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

April RG 26_2

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List