A century in crisis
Subtitle: modernity and tradition in the art of twentieth-century China
By: Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen ; with essays by Jonathan Spence ... [et al.].
Contributors: Shen, Kuiyi, 1954-; Spence, Jonathan D.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Shih chi ti chuan che :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-327) and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum Soho, Feb. 6-May 24, 1998 and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, July 17-Oct.15, 1998.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A century in crisis : tradition and modernity in the art of twentieth-century China / Julia F. Andrews ; China's modern worlds / Jonathan Spence; title: Innovations in Chinese painting, 1850-1950. Painting of China's new metropolis : the Shanghai School, 1850-1900 / Shan Guolin ; The Lingnan School and its followers : radical innovation in southern China / Christine Chu ; Traditional painting in a transitional era, 1900-1950 / Kuiyi Shen ; Chinese calligraphy in the modern era / Xue Yongnian; title: The modernist generations, 1920-1950. Reforms in educaiton and the beginning of the western-style painting movement in China / Mayching Kao ; The lure of the West : modern Chinese oil painting / Kuiyi Shen ; Commercial art and China's modernization / Julia F. Andrews ; The modern woodcut movement / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen; title: Art for new China, 1950-1980. The victory of socialist realism : oil painting and the new Guohua / Julia F. Andrews; title: Transformations of tradition, 1980 to the present. Chinese painting in the post-Mao era / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen.