Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century
Scott Minick, Jiao Ping$16.96
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 05/01/2010
ISBN: 9780500288733
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.98h x 8.70w x 0.56d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 06/06/2010 pg. 41
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 05/01/2010
ISBN: 9780500288733
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.98h x 8.70w x 0.56d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 06/06/2010 pg. 41