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Contextualizing Chinese propaganda posters. Ephemera and Archives Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies, Houston 2-4 December 2011. What are posters?. Xuanchuan hua (propaganda images) Nianhua (New Year’s prints) Huapian (“posters”). Yan’an, 1942. everything must change.
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Contextualizing Chinese propaganda posters Ephemera and Archives Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies, Houston 2-4 December 2011
Xuanchuan hua (propaganda images) • Nianhua (New Year’s prints) • Huapian (“posters”)
Mao’s observations: “Literature and art [must] become a component part of the whole revolutionary machinery, so they can act as a powerful weapon in uniting and educating the people ...” “What we demand is a unity of politics and art, a unity of content and form, a unity of revolutionary political content and the most perfect artistic form possible.” (Mao Zedong, Yan’an, 1942)
Nianhua (New Year’s prints) • Youhua (oil painting) • Shuifenhua (water colors) • Mubanhua (blockprints) • Zhongguo hua (“Chinese” painting) • Diaoke, suzao (carvings, statues) • Xuanchuan hua (propaganda images)
286 pages with 250 color illustrations978-3-7913-4389-1€ 19,95, US$ 24.95, £ 14.99Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2009
