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Art in the cultural revolution : establishment of a new age / production of REC Foundation.
LIBRA VHS N7345 .A7 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Chinese--20th century.
- Art, Chinese.
- Socialist realism in art--China.
- Socialist realism in art.
- China.
- China--Social life and customs--1976-.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (33 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Cinema Guild, 1997.
- System Details:
- VHS format.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Examines the Communist Party's rigorously enforced art policies during China's Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976, when pictorial artists were given strict aesthetic guidelines for the production of works designed to promote the ideology and imagery of Mao Tse-tung's illusory new society. Through a detailed study of paintings, posters and operas- from their color scheme and their treatment of light and shadow, to the bodily poses and facial expressions ... - the video reveals how artists were politically mobilized under the guidance of Mao's wife, Jian Qing, to promote an ideology of revolutionary purity.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Laura Kuhn.
- Credits:
- Director, Kubert Leung ; producers, Ping-Jie Zhang and Kubert Leung ; researcher and author, Ping-Jie Zhang.
- OCLC:
- 37841960
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