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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02450-2 — Art and Artists in China Since 1949 Ying Yi , in Collaboration with Xiaobing Tang Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02450-2 — Art and Artists in China since 1949 Ying Yi , In collaboration with Xiaobing Tang Index More Information Index Note: The artworks illustrated in this book are oil paintings unless otherwise stated. Figures 1–33 will be found in Plate section 1 (between pp. 49 and 72); Figures 34–62 in section 2 (between pp. 113 and 136); Figures 63–103 in section 3 (between pp. 199 and 238); Figures 104–161 in section 4 (between pp. 295 and 350). abstract art (Chinese) 163, 269–274, art market see commercialization of art 279 art publications (new) 86, 165–172 early 1980s 269–271 Artillery of the October Revolution 42 ’85 Movement –“China/Avant-Garde” Arts and Craft Movement 268 269–271 Attacking the Headquarters (Fig. 27) 1989 – present (post-modern) stage 273 avant-garde art (Chinese) 141, 146, 169, conceptual abstraction 273–274, 277–278 176, 181, 239, 245, 258, 264–265 expressive abstraction 273–274, 276 see also “China/Avant-Garde” material abstraction 277 exhibition schematic abstraction 245, 274 avant-garde art (Russian) 3–4 abstract art (Western) 147–148, 195–196, avant-garde art (Western) 100, 101, 267–268 see also Abstract 255–256, 257, 264 see also Modernism Expressionism; Hard-Edge / Structural Abstraction Bacon, Francis 243 Abstract Expressionism 256, 269, 274 Bao Jianfei 172 academic realism 245, 270 New Space No.1 167 academies see art academies Barbizon School 87 Ai Xinzhong 14 Bauhaus School 269 Ai Zhongxin 5 Beckmann, Max 246 amateur art/artists 35, 74–75, 106–108, Bei Dao 140 137–138, 141, 144 Beijing Artists Association 138 “An Exhibition of the Great Achievements Beijing Capital Airport murals 108–109, of the Cultural Revolution” [not dated] 141, 156 40 Beijing Oil Painting Research Society 103, Anti-Rightist Campaign 24, 31, 48 106–107, 140–141, 144, 170 anti-traditionalism 101, 160–162, 175 Beuys, Joseph 75, 291–292 April 5, 1976 Tiananmen Square incident boredom (expressed in art) 240, 243, 76, 138, 158 262–263, 289 architecture 109, 269 Arkady Plastor, Tractor Driver’s Supper 30 Cai Liang, Sons of Poor Peasants 36 Arp, Jean 143, 278 (Fig. 24) art academies (Chinese) 19, 34, 37, 39, 41, Cao Li 111 73, 75, 86, 97, 158, 241, 267 High Summer (Fig. 150) art academies (Western) 102, 104 capitalism (opposition to) 35 “art for art’s sake” 2, 102 Cézanne, Paul 101, 150 art critics (emergence of young) 171–172 Central Academy of Fine Arts 7, 9, 97, 262 Art magazine 3, 35, 86, 140, 147, 171 exhibitions 88, 240–241, 287, 290 353 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02450-2 — Art and Artists in China since 1949 Ying Yi , In collaboration with Xiaobing Tang Index More Information 354 Index Central Academy of Fine Arts (cont.) Chirico, Giorgio de 150 instructors see Lü Shengzhong; Chistiakov, Pavel Petrovich 19, 86 Maksimov; Qian Shaowu; Sui Jianguo; Classicism 87, 101, 268, 269 see also New Xu Bing; Zhang Xiaogang Classicism Chairman Mao is the Reddest, Reddest of Suns Close, Chuck 92 in Our Heart 42 “close-up” style 243, 247 Chairman Mao Travels across China 43 Colville, Alex 95, 191, 270–271 Chang Shuhong, Dunhang Mural Painting Commander-in-Chief Peng and Soldiers 23 Exhibition 13 commercialization of art 100, 245, Chen Danqing 88, 90–91, 98, 146 251–255, 273, 292 Market 90, 96 “complete art” 284 see also Conceptual Art Tibetan Paintings 25–26, 88–91, 93–94, Conceptual Art see also installation art; 148, 270 (Fig. 15) performance art Chen Laolian, Antique Leaves 109 Conceptual Art (Chinese) 172, 176, 267, Chen Qiang 283 271, 273, 281–284, 287, 289–291, 293 Crossing the Yellow River 284 Conceptual Art (Western) 194–195, Chen Rong, Upon Reaching Middle Age 83 280–281, 283–287 Chen Shuxia 243 Constructivism 196–197, 269 Chen Wenji, Letter - Essential Oils (Fig. 149) Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille 63 89 Chen Xiaoqui, Fight to Protect the Road 45 Critical Realism (Chinese) 74–75, 81, Chen Yanning 46 85–86, 140, 155, 193, 239, 270 Chairman Mao inspects the Countryside 46 Critical Realism (Russian) 3, 20–21, 24, New Doctor of the Fishing Port 46 (Fig. 30) 75, 80–81 Chen Yanning and Tang Xiaoming, Cubism 102, 144, 148, 163, 165, 170, 269, Proletariat Song graphic novel 46 279–280 Chen Yiming, Liu Yilian, and Li Bin cultural criticism 88, 96, 104, 183, 254, Maple [graphic novel] 77–78, 83 258, 262, 270–271, 287 (Fig. 35) Cultural Revolution 33–35, 37, 39–48, Chen Zhongzi, Choosing Five Good 152–153 Commune Members 37 criticism and repudiation 76–77, 88, Cheng Conglin 96 138–139 On a Snowy Day in 1968 79–80, 96 end 73, 138, 152 (Fig. 37) transformation of art after 82–83 On a Summer Night in 1978, I Saw the Cultural Revolution art 74 Yearning of a Nation 96 oil paintings 40–46, 90, 92 Xiamen 1884 169 (Fig. 84) prints 40–42 Chernyshevsky, Nikolay 20 propaganda art 7, 34, 37, 40, 42, 45, 74 China representations of Mao Zedong, see under foundation of People’s Republic 1949 1 Mao see also Revolutionary Realism; history since foundation of People’s Revolutionary Romanticism Republic see Cultural Revolution; cultural toadyism 266 Gang of Four Cynical Realism 262–263 economic development 239, 243, 254, 282 da Vinci, Leonardo 167 urbanization 159, 248–249, 253 Dada movement (Chinese) see Xiamen “China/Avant-Garde” 1989, artists Dada installing (Fig. 102) Dada movement (Western) 175 “China/Avant-Garde” exhibition 1989 Dali, Salvador, The Specter of Sex Appeal 167–168, 176, 184–189, 239, 258, 271 (Fig. 105) “China’s New Art Post-1989” exhibition, David, Jacques-Louis 167 Hong Kong, 1992 254–255, 263, The Death of Marat 11 266 de la Tour, Georges 95 “Chinese Art Critics Annual Nomination De Stijl 269 Exhibition” 1993 248 Deng Jianjin 250 Chinese characters 178–181 Holding on to Autumn 250 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02450-2 — Art and Artists in China since 1949 Ying Yi , In collaboration with Xiaobing Tang Index More Information Index 355 Deng Xiaoping 35, 48 “First Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition” Southern Tour speech 1992 241, 254, 282 1991 251, 274 Di Naizhuang, Walking Red 284 “First Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition” Ding Fang 165 1986 163–164 City Walls (Fig. 76) “Five-Person Sculpture Exhibition” 1994 Weathering the Drought (Fig. 77) 287–288 Ding Yi, Appearance of Crosses 91–7 (Fig. 113) formal exploration 170, 172 Dong Xiwen 2, 13–15, 21 Formalism 14, 22, 32, 85, 102, 104–108, Entering Beiping 14 140, 183, 270, 289, 292 Kazakh Shepherdess 13–15 Four Cleanses movement 36–37 Spring Greets Tibet 14–15 Freud, Lucien 242 The Founding Ceremony 13–15, 22 Fu Baoshi 161 (Fig. 10) Futurism 269 The Red Army Does Not Fear the Difficult Expedition 15 Gang of Four 47, 76, 107, 155 Thousand Year-Old Earth Has Turned criticism of 76, 82, 88, 139, 146, 155 Over 14–15 (Fig. 11) fall of 73, 75 Du Jian, Advancing despite the Rapids 33 Gao Brothers and Li Qun, Inflatable (Fig. 21) Installation 188 Duchamp, Marcel, The Large Glass 189 Gao Chao Dunhuang murals 13, 109 Large Cross series 292–293 Rain 76 (Fig. 34) Earth Art 280–281, 283 Gao Minglu 169, 171, 185, 188 Eclecticism 269 Gao Qiang 292–293 ’85 Movement 140, 145, 160–161, 166, Large Cross series 292–293 169, 172, 176, 186, 239, 240, 241, Gao Xiaohua, Why 78–79 (Fig. 36) 258, 259, 266, 272–273, Gao Zen 292–293 281–282, 289 see also “Huangshan Gauguin, Paul 101 Conference”; “Young Art Exhibition” Geng Jianyi 167, 172, 174 El Greco 95–96, 151–152, 270 Haircut No. 3: Another Bald Head elite art 2–3, 239, 256, 280, 291 in Summer 1985 166–167, 174 (Fig. 79) Engles, Friedrich 41 Second State 174 (Fig. 89) existentialism 160, 165 Gong Lilong 100 experimental art 162–163 gongbi paintings 37, 110, 181 Expressionism 138, 147, 170, 192, 248, Gorky, Maxim The Song of the Stormy Petrel 267 see also Abstract Expressionism; prose poem 47 Neo-Expressionism “Grand Consumption” 290 graphic novels 77–79, 83–84, 156 Fan Di’an 185 Great Leap Forward 31–32, 36 Fan Shuru, Untitled 187 group activities of young artists 167, 170, Fang Lijun 263–264 175, 243 1995 No. 1 (Fig. 139) Gu Dexin, Untitled 187 Yawning Man 263–264 (Fig. 138) Gu Wenda 176–177 Fang Zengxian Diagram of the Universe 177 Every Grain is Hard Work (Fig. 28) Free Spirit [ink on card] (Fig. 91) Reciting the Red Book 46 Horrors of War 177 Fauvism 144, 147–148, 164, 268 Inspiration Comes from Tranquillity 177 faux-realist style 270 Positive and Negative Characters [ink on Fei Dawei 185 card] (Fig. 92) Feng Fasi, Searching for Lice 10 Gu Yuhan 4–5 Feng Guodong 107–108, 144 Rent Reduction Meeting 5–6 (Fig. 1) People at Ease 107–108 (Fig. 51) Guan Ce 286 Self-Portrait of a Street Sweeper 107 A Vague Idea [photograph and mixed figurative art/figuration 36, 166, 267, media] (Fig. 156) 271–272, 276–277 Guan Ying 172 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02450-2 — Art and Artists in China since 1949 Ying Yi , In collaboration with Xiaobing Tang Index More Information 356 Index Guang Tingbo, Liquid Steel and Sweat 92, illusionism 20–21 244 (Fig.
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