1 Realising the Chinese Dream
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Stefan R. Landsberger
Abstract
This chapter charts the changing nature and transformation of Maoist propaganda and iconography in China from 1949 to 1979. Providing rare insight into the mechanics of the production and distribution of art and propaganda, Stefan R. Landsberger’s contribution focuses on three examples, explaining and giving context to a variety of contradictions, which upset any homogeneous treatments of this surprising chapter of Chinese art history. Landsberger demonstrates how, rather than conforming to any kind of cultural directives, Maoist art and propaganda from this period often subverted rather than affirmed Mao’s Yan’an Talks.
Abstract
This chapter charts the changing nature and transformation of Maoist propaganda and iconography in China from 1949 to 1979. Providing rare insight into the mechanics of the production and distribution of art and propaganda, Stefan R. Landsberger’s contribution focuses on three examples, explaining and giving context to a variety of contradictions, which upset any homogeneous treatments of this surprising chapter of Chinese art history. Landsberger demonstrates how, rather than conforming to any kind of cultural directives, Maoist art and propaganda from this period often subverted rather than affirmed Mao’s Yan’an Talks.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of illustrations vii
- List of contributors xv
- Introduction 1
- 1 Realising the Chinese Dream 15
- 2 Realism, socialist realism and China’s avant-garde 35
- 3 Engineering the human soul in 1950s Indonesia and Singapore 53
- 4 Framing margins 67
- 5 The Black Panther newspaper and revolutionary aesthetics 87
- 6 The Red Flag 109
- 7 A secondary contradiction 129
- 8 Materialist translations of Maoism in the work of Supports/Surfaces 149
- 9 Mao, militancy and media 165
- 10 La Familia Lavapiés 187
- 11 Maoism, Dadaism and Mao-Dadaism in 1960s and 1970s Italy 213
- 12 Another red in the Portuguese diaspora 233
- 13 Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution) 249
- 14 Maoist imaginaries in Latin American art 269
- 15 Iconography of a prison massacre 289
- 16 Mao in a gondola 311
- 17 Reproducibility, propaganda and the Chinese origins of neoliberal aesthetics 325
- Index 345
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of illustrations vii
- List of contributors xv
- Introduction 1
- 1 Realising the Chinese Dream 15
- 2 Realism, socialist realism and China’s avant-garde 35
- 3 Engineering the human soul in 1950s Indonesia and Singapore 53
- 4 Framing margins 67
- 5 The Black Panther newspaper and revolutionary aesthetics 87
- 6 The Red Flag 109
- 7 A secondary contradiction 129
- 8 Materialist translations of Maoism in the work of Supports/Surfaces 149
- 9 Mao, militancy and media 165
- 10 La Familia Lavapiés 187
- 11 Maoism, Dadaism and Mao-Dadaism in 1960s and 1970s Italy 213
- 12 Another red in the Portuguese diaspora 233
- 13 Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution) 249
- 14 Maoist imaginaries in Latin American art 269
- 15 Iconography of a prison massacre 289
- 16 Mao in a gondola 311
- 17 Reproducibility, propaganda and the Chinese origins of neoliberal aesthetics 325
- Index 345
