Contemporary Public Art in China: A Photographic Tour (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295977086 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Such sujects as art education, the influence of Western art, and the position of women artists in China are also touched on.Young introduces us to examples of portrait art featuring political figures, such as the famous collaborative marble carving of Mao Zedong in the Memorial Hall at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and others that depict anonymous subjects, such as Situ Zhaoguang’s playful sculpture--located on a Beijing traffic island amid busy streets--of a girl engrossed in reading a book, plugging her ears to the noise. They range from the ubiquitous Chairman Mao statues, to immense monuments and murals commemorating revolutionary uprisings, to abstract pieces inspired by international artistic trends. The artists, ranging in age from twenty to