Art and China's Revolution

摘要

From September 2008 till January 2009, The Asia Society organized a significant exhibition in New York, devoted to Chinese art from the first three decades of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Aside from familiarizing a Western audience with art works from a period that is usually associated with propaganda rather than with creative work, the exhibition's organizers also wanted to show the formative influence of revolutionary art on China's present leading artists, such as Xu Bing (pp. viii, 106-117), and (multi-media) projects (The Long March Project, pp. 200-211). This fine book was published to accompany the eponymous exhibition and to provide further background to the works on display.