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The catalogue documents the stories of twenty-two artists from the Wuming, Xingxing, and Caocao art groups presented in the Light Before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974-1985 exhibition at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Emerging from the Cultural Revolution, these groups of artists sought artistic truth in the authenticity of human desire, explored the personal meaning of creativity, and asserted the value of the individual in the critical period leading up to the Communist Party's decision to allow modern artistic practices in 1985. Written by the curators, Dr. Kuiyi Shen and Dr. Julia F. Andrews, the catalogue also includes short articles by artists from each group.

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Kuiyi Shen is director of the Chinese Studies program and professor of Asian art history, theory, and criticism at University of California, San Diego. His teaching and writing focus on Chinese and Japanese art with an emphasis on modern and contemporary Chinese art and Sino-Japanese art exchanges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Julia F. Andrews is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the department of History of Art at the Ohio State University. A specialist in Chinese art, she was the first American art historian to conduct dissertation research in China after formal establishment of US-China relations in 1979.

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