Editor: SCott Minick, Jiao Ping
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
Publication: 1990, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 160
Size: 230 x 260
Text: English
ISBN: 9780500235980
(Preface) 'In the twentieth century, in the wake of the fall of the Qing dynasty, Chinese traditions were exposed to dramatic influences from outside the country, as well as rapid modernisation from within. The book is built around an astonishing collection of graphics, brilliantly uncovered by the authors from long-forgotten sources, mostly in China itself, after surviving innumerable up-heavals: natural catastrophes, war and revolution.
Using a wide range of media, from posters, advertisements and ephemera to book covers and magazine designs, Scott Minick and Jiao Ping surprise us with a dazzling panoply of images. Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, they show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the centre of cultural revival in the new China. Then we see Art Deco coming to China in the Shanghai Style, a mirror of the heady lifestyle of that great city in the Twenties and Thirties. Meantime, a dynamic national design style, born of Russian Constructivism and China's own drive for new technology, was soon to be forged. The Socialist Realist art of Mao in turn adopted folk art traditions to fuel the Revolutionary machine... And so to the present day, with the continuing search for a new identity seen in the graphic images of protest of the summer of 1989...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges.
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