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Museum Representations of Maoist China

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Museum Representations of Maoist China book

From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch

Museum Representations of Maoist China

DOI link for Museum Representations of Maoist China

Museum Representations of Maoist China book

From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch
ByAmy Jane Barnes
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596440
Pages 264 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315596440
SubjectsArea Studies, Arts, Museum and Heritage Studies
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Barnes, A. (2014). Museum Representations of Maoist China. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596440

The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People’s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been problematic for museums. These objects challenge our perception of ’Chineseness’ and their style, content and the means of their production question accepted notions of how we perceive art. This book links art history, museology and visual culture studies to examine how museums have attempted to reveal, discuss and resolve some of these issues. Amy Jane Barnes addresses a series of related issues associated with collection and display: how museums deal with difficult and controversial subjects; the role they play in mediating between the object and the audience; the role of the Other in the creation of Self and national identities; the nature, role and function of art in society; the museum as image-maker; the impact of communism (and Maoism) on the cultural history of the twentieth-century; and the appropriation of communist visual iconography. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of museology, visual and cultural studies as well as scholars of Chinese and revolutionary art.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|26 pages

Imagining China: The Birth and Consolidation of British Visions of China

chapter 3|26 pages

East–West Cultural Revolutions, 1966–1969

chapter 4|32 pages

East–West Rapprochement, 1970–1976

chapter 5|20 pages

Peasant Paintings from Hu County

chapter 6|16 pages

Revision and Reform: Retrospective Appraisals of the Cultural Revolution

chapter 7|22 pages

After Tiananmen

chapter 8|20 pages

Human Rights and Bragging Rights: Images of China from the Turn of the Millennium to the Beijing Games

chapter 9|22 pages

Exhibiting the Cultural Revolution

chapter 10|10 pages

Conclusion

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