A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China
New York: Guggenheim, 1998. Hardcover. Blue cloth, blue DJ. 329 pp. Approx. 300 color, 85 bw plates. VG. Item #15994
ISBN: 9780810969094
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China, which was presented at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo (now closed) in 1998, and organized by scholars of modern Chinese art (Julia F. Andrews and Kuiya Shen). The exhibition was organized into four interconnected sections: Innovations in Chinese Painting, 1859–1950; The Modernist Generations, 1920–1950; Art for New China, 1950–1980; and Transformations of Tradition, 1980 to the Present. The essays trace the development of Chinese art throughout the turbulent decades of the twentieth-century, a period marked by great social upheavals and a struggle between modernity and tradition. The exhibition catalogue includes reproductions from traditional scroll paintings to literati paintings, woodcut prints, and social realist paintings of the Cultural Revolution. Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Guggenheim from Feb. 6 to May 24, 1998. It then went on to one other location.
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