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Product Identifiers

PublisherThames & Hudson

ISBN-100500288739

ISBN-139780500288733

eBay Product ID (ePID)79700634

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

TopicDesign, Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Asian / Chinese, Graphic Arts / General

AuthorScott Minick, Jiao Ping

IllustratorYes

Dimensions

Item Length10 In.

Item Height0.6 In.

Item Weight24.4 Oz

Item Width8.8 In.

Additional Product Features

LCCN2009-936400

Book TitleChinese Graphic Design in Twentieth Centure

Dewey Decimal741.60951

Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisFrom posters and advertisements to book covers and magazines, this book presents a dazzling panoply of modern graphic design in China. Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, the authors show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the center of cultural revival in the new China. We see Art Deco coming to China in the Shanghai Style, and the birth of a dynamic national design style, born of Russian Constructivism and China's own drive for new technology. The Socialist Realist art of Mao in turn adopted folk art traditions to fuel the Revolutionary machine, while the continuing search for a new identity can be seen in the graphic images of protest from the summer of 1989., An astonishing collection of graphics, uncovered from long- forgotten sources, mostly in China itself., Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, the authors show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the center of cultural revival in the new China. We see Art Deco coming to China in the Shanghai Style, and the birth of a dynamic national design style, born of Russian Constructivism and China's own drive for new technology. The Socialist Realist art of Mao in turn adopted folk art traditions to fuel the Revolutionary machine, while the continuing search for a new identity can be seen in the graphic images of protest from the summer of 1989., An astonishing collection of graphics, uncovered from long- forgotten sources, mostly in China itself. From posters and advertisements to book covers and magazines, this book presents a dazzling panoply of modern graphic design in China. Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, the authors show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the center of cultural revival in the new China. We see Art Deco coming to China in the Shanghai Style, and the birth of a dynamic national design style, born of Russian Constructivism and China's own drive for new technology. The Socialist Realist art of Mao in turn adopted folk art traditions to fuel the Revolutionary machine, while the continuing search for a new identity can be seen in the graphic images of protest from the summer of 1989.

Publication Year2010

Reviews"[This] richly illustrated book introduces the European-influenced modernist graphics of the "Shanghai Style," dominated by Art Deco, and the "Progressive Movement," influenced by Russian Constructivism, de Stijl and the Bauhaus." "It was Minick and Ping's wish that this book help to preserve the cultural identity of China it is evident with even a simple glance that their venture has been successful", It was Minick and Ping's wish that this book help to preserve the cultural identity of China - it is evident with even a simple glance that their venture has been successful, "[This] richly illustrated book introduces the European-influenced modernist graphics of the "Shanghai Style," dominated by Art Deco, and the "Progressive Movement," influenced by Russian Constructivism, de Stijl and the Bauhaus."

Dewey Edition20

FormatTrade Paperback

LC Classification NumberNC990.5.M56 2010

Number of Pages160 pages