false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg 809249 1 Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists--these were also years of extreme isolation from international artistic dialogue. During this period the Chinese Communist Party succeeded in eradicating most of the artistic styles and techniques it found politically repugnant. By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.<br>Through vivid firsthand accounts, Andrews recreates the careers of many individual artists who were forced to submit to a vacillating policy regarding style, technique, medium, and genre. She discusses the cultural controls that the government used, the ways in which artists responded, and the works of art that emerged as a result. She particularly emphasizes the influence of the Soviet Union on Chinese art and the problems it created for the practice of traditional painting.<br>This book opens the way to new, stimulating comparisons of Western and Eastern cultures and will be welcomed by art historians, political scientists, and scholars of Asia. 795190 12 1 1995 Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 total:5|5:1|4:2|3:2|2:0|1:0| 5 19 6 0 809249 0520079817 9780520079816 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809249.Painters_and_Politics_in_the_People_s_Republic_of_China_1949_1979 5 0 false Mon Dec 07 18:18:52 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 18:19:10 -0800 2009 809249 0520079817 9780520079816 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809249.Painters_and_Politics_in_the_People_s_Republic_of_China_1949_1979 3 0 false Tue Aug 04 21:56:56 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 21:56:56 -0700 2009 809249 0520079817 9780520079816 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809249.Painters_and_Politics_in_the_People_s_Republic_of_China_1949_1979 4 0 false Tue Mar 17 17:17:01 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 17:17:01 -0700 2009 809249 0520079817 9780520079816 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809249.Painters_and_Politics_in_the_People_s_Republic_of_China_1949_1979 0 0 false Fri Feb 13 23:03:23 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 23:03:23 -0800 2009 809249 0520079817 9780520079816 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809249.Painters_and_Politics_in_the_People_s_Republic_of_China_1949_1979 3 0 false Sat Jul 12 07:47:58 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 07:47:58 -0700 2008 809249 0520079817 9780520079816 5 0 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178581400m/809249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809249.Painters_and_Politics_in_the_People_s_Republic_of_China_1949_1979 4 0 false Mon May 07 16:43:30 -0700 2007 Mon May 07 16:43:34 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=809249