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Informationen zum Autor Richard King is Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Victoria, teaching Chinese literature and film, Asian popular culture, research methods, and Chinese language. Klappentext Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet - and examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age. Zusammenfassung This book decodes the rhetoric of China’s turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Vibrant Images of a Turbulent Decade / Richard King and Jan WallsPart 1: Artists and the State1 The Art of the Cultural Revolution / Julia F. Andrews2 Summoning Confucius: Inside Shi Lu's Imagination / Shelley Drake HawksPart 2: Artists Remember: Two Memoirs3 Brushes Are Weapons: An Art School and Its Artists / Shengtian Zheng4 When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages / Gu XiongPart 3: Meanings Then and Now5 The Rent Collection Courtyard, Past and Present / Britta Erickson6 Hu Xian Peasant Painting: From Revolutionary Icon to Market Commodity / Ralph CroizierPart 4: Beyond the Visual Arts7 Model Theatrical Works and the Remodelling of the Cultural Revolution / Paul Clark8 Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women / Bai Di9 Fantasies of Battle: Making the Militant Hero Prominent / Richard KingNotesBibliographyIndex
