Chinese propaganda posters

Collectif The Pepin Press

240 pages, parution le 12/06/2002

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Résumé

Images portraying model behaviour or a better future have been a ubiquitous element of Chinese political culture from Imperial times until the present. As economic reform swept the People's Republic in the 1980s, visual propaganda ceased to depict the tanned and muscular labourers in a proletarian utopia, so typical of preceding decades. Instead, Western icons of progress and development were employed: high-speed bullet trains, spacecraft, high-rise buildings, gridlocked highways and projections of general affluence. Socialist Realism, the artistic doctrine prescribing the glorification of the communist ideal, was replaced by design and mixed-media techniques that were influenced by Western advertising.

This lavishly illustrated study traces the development of the style and content of the Chinese propaganda poster in the decade of reform, from its traditional origins to its use as a tool for political and economic purposes.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Traditional and Modern Propagation of Behaviour in China
The Propaganda Poster During the Four Modernizations Era
The Future Symbolized: Propaganda Posters of the Four Modernizations Era
Epilogue
Notes
Publication Data of Posters Reproduced in This Book
Bibliography (Chinese Language Sources)
Bibliography (Western language Sources)
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The Pepin Press
Auteur(s)	Collectif The Pepin Press
Parution	12/06/2002
Nb. de pages	240
Format	24 x 30
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1082g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9789054960096
ISBN13	978-90-5496-009-6