This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is ideally suited for readers to understand the particularities of Chinese art that are distinct from Western art history. Such an approach is appropriate to the understanding of the development of modern Chinese art, which differs from both the Western approach to art history and the approach to traditional Chinese art, which is limited to the combing of ink and brush heritage and ideological traditions. Based on the scale and influence of historical works, considering the specificity of the term involving 'fine art' in China, and the scope of influence of the phenomenon of fine art in the cultural field, this book's study of the phenomena of painting, sculpture, photography, video and mixed-media art follows two linear time lines of historical relevance: 1949-1978 and 1978 to the present. Special attention is paid to the development of modern and contemporary art after 1978. The main readers of this book are: undergraduate students in art schools, graduate and doctoral students in art history; students in other humanities disciplines; experts and professors in the study of 20th century Chinese art and cultural history should be important readers of this book.
The Influence of Western Civilization and the Adjustment of Traditional
Thinking.- The Shanghai School and its Painters.- Fine Arts Revolution.- The
Origins and Intellectual Background of Chinese-Style Painting.- Guohua
Painters and New Guohua.- Modern Fine Arts Education.- Realism and
Artists.- Modernist Art, Intellectual Trends and Encounters.- Left-Wing Fine
Arts.- The Art of Yanan and Talks at the Yanan Forum on Literature and
Art.- Art in KMT Ruled Areas.- Art in the Period of Social Recovery and
Construction.- The Transformation of Chinese-Style Painting and Guohua
Painters.- The Influence of the Soviet Union.- The Art of the Cultural
Revolution Period.- The Continuing Advance of Modernism.- The Beginnings of
the Art of the New Period.- The 85 Art Movement.- New Literati Painting
and Experimental Ink and Wash.- The Flourishing of Contemporary Art.- The
Emergence of Problems in the Market.- Conceptual Art in the 1990s.- The
Artistic Environment and the Political System in the New
Century.- Performance Art.- Issues of Womens Art and Women
Artists.- Contemporary Artists.- Artists Addressing Political
Questions.- Contemporary Sculpture and Sculptors.- New Painting and Its
Evolution.
Lü Peng is an eminent art historian, historiographer, critic, and curator. Born in 1956, he served as an associate professor for his alma mater, the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, in Hangzhou. He is now a professor at the Macao University of Science and Technology, as well as at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is Doctor of Letters from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He is the author of several books on modern and contemporary Chinese art history and artist biographies. He is also the curator of several biennales in China.
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