Art, global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution /edited by Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro García and Victoria H. F. Scott.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xix, 356 pages) : illustrations.
- Rethinking art's histories .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the art of contradiction / 1. Realising the Chinese Dream: three visions of Making China great again / 2. Realism, socialist realism and China's avant-garde: a historical perspective / 3. Engineering the human soul in 1950s Indonesia and Singapore / 4. Framing margins: Mao and visuality in twentieth-century India / 5. The Black Panther newspaper and revolutionary aesthetics / 6. The Red Flag: the art and politics of West German Maoism / 7. A secondary contradiction: feminist aesthetics and 'The Red Room for Vietnam' / 8. Materialist translations of Maoism in the work of Supports/Surfaces / 9. Mao, militancy and media: Daniel Dezeuze and China from scroll to (TV) screen / 10. La Familia Lavapiés: Maoism, art and dissidence in Spain / 11. Maoism, Dadaism and Mao-Dadaism in 1960s and 1970s Italy / 12. Another red in the Portuguese diaspora: Lourdes Castro and Manuel Zimbro's Un autre livre rouge / 13. Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution) / 14. Maoist imaginaries in Latin American art -- Ana Longoni --15. Iconography of a prison massacre: drawings by Peruvian Shining Path war survivors / 16. Mao in a gondola: Chinese representation at the Venice Biennale (1993-2003) / 17. Reproducibility, propaganda and the Chinese origins of neoliberal aesthetics / Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro-García and Victoria H. F. Scott -- Stefan R. Landsberger -- Yan Geng -- Simon Soon -- Sanjukta Sunderason -- Colette Gaiter -- Lauren Graber and Daniel Spaulding -- Elodie Antoine -- Allison Myers -- Sarah Wilson -- Noemi de Haro-García -- Jacopo Galimberti -- Ana Bigotte Vieira and André Silveira -- Polly Savage -- Anouk Guiné -- Estelle Bories -- Victoria H. F. Scott.
"This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely known in the west, the volume demonstrates the significance of visuality in understanding the protean nature of this powerful worldwide revolutionary movement. Contributions address regions as diverse as Singapore, Madrid, Lima and Maputo, moving beyond stereotypes and misconceptions of Mao Zedong Thought's influence on art to deliver a survey of the social and political contexts of this international phenomenon. At the same time, the book attends to the the similarities and differences between each case study. It demonstrates that the chameleonic appearances of global Maoism deserve a more prominent place in the art history of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Provided by publisher.