{"product_id":"art-in-turmoil-9780774815437","title":"Art in Turmoil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty 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. Probing deeply, it 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. Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this national convulsion the arts played a strikingly large role, a process described with great care in \u003cem\u003eArt in Turmoil.\u003c\/em\u003e -- Robert Fulford * “A new level of art criticism,” National Post, June 15, 2010 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a brilliant, thorough study of art created during the disastrous decade in China’s modern history. The recent flood of publications on China’s contemporary art scene make this book on the immediately preceding period necessary reading because of the polar opposite forces that brought the two periods into play.… Essential.\u003c\/p\u003e * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume compellingly illustrates that the artistic products of the CR period were anything but “artless, sterile, without depth, without truth, and without reality” (189). Moreover, present-day artistic producers and their works, as well as society at large, continue to be influenced by them.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stefan R. Landsberger, University of Amsterdam * The China Beat *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe level of scholarship throughout is high, with extensive reading in Chinese-language primary and secondary sources combined with personal experience. It is recommended reading for all students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Bonnie S. McDougall, University of Sydney, Australia * Pacific Affairs, Vol 84, No 3 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Vibrant Images of a Turbulent Decade \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard King and Jan Walls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Artists and the State\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Art of the Cultural Revolution \/ \u003cem\u003eJulia F. Andrews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Summoning Confucius: Inside Shi Lu’s Imagination \/ \u003cem\u003eShelley Drake Hawks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Artists Remember: Two Memoirs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Brushes Are Weapons: An Art School and Its Artists \/ \u003cem\u003eShengtian Zheng\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages \/ \u003cem\u003eGu Xiong\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Meanings Then and Now\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 \u003cem\u003eThe Rent Collection Courtyard\u003c\/em\u003e, Past and Present \/ \u003cem\u003eBritta Erickson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Hu Xian Peasant Painting: From Revolutionary Icon to Market Commodity \/ \u003cem\u003eRalph Croizier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Beyond the Visual Arts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Model Theatrical Works and the Remodelling of the Cultural Revolution \/ \u003cem\u003ePaul Clark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets \u003cem\u003eThe White-Haired Girl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Red Detachment of Women\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eBai Di\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Fantasies of Battle: Making the Militant Hero Prominent \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard King\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404917776727,"sku":"9780774815437","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-in-turmoil-9780774815437","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}