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1 online resource |
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Ideas, History, and Modern China ; volume 12 |
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Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 12.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Note on the Illustrations; Notes on Romanization and References; Note on Sources; Introduction; A Modern Miscellany; The Cartoon as Part of the Modern Art Scene in Shanghai; The Manhuahui; Part 1 The Beginnings of the Modern Chinese Cartoon; Chapter 1 Manhua Artists in Shanghai; Marc Chadourne and Paul Morand; Vanity Fair; Western Models of Art and Literature in Shanghai manhua; English Decadence in Shanghai; The Modern and the Decadent-The Cubist Shanghai Life, Lust, and Snake and Woman; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Shao Xunmei and his Circle |
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Shao Xunmei and Pictorial MagazinesShao Xunmei and Salon Culture; The Yunshang Fashion Company; The Zhang Brothers-Designers; A Depiction of Shao Xunmei by Wang Zimei; A Letter to Emily Hahn; Part 2 Adoption of Foreign Models in Art and Literature; Chapter 3 Miguel Covarrubias; Covarrubias Goes to China: 1930; Covarrubias Goes to China Again: 1933; Covarrubias's Illustrations to Chine (China); Chinese Artists and the Covarrubias Style; "Impossible Interviews"; Large-scale Group Caricatures; Ding Cong and the Mexican Muralists; The Legacy of Covarrubias |
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Chapter 4 The Chinese Cartoonists and George GroszThe Art of George Grosz in Shanghai; George Grosz and China; Proponents of the "Grosz-style"; A Foreigner's View of the Grosz Imitators; Cai Ruohong: China's "New Grosz"?; The Chinese View of Grosz's Work; Conclusion; Part 3 The Dissemination of Chinese Political Art; Chapter 5 Jack Chen in China; Chen Arrives in Shanghai; The Cartoons of Jack Chen in Shanghai; Chen and Soviet Socialist Realism; The Letters of Jack Chen; From China to Moscow and London: The Beginnings of Chen's World Tour; Anthony Blunt: A Champion of Chen's Cause |
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Chapter 6 The First National Cartoon ExhibitionSuitable Venue: The Sun Company Building; The Exhibition; News in the Shanghai Press; Jack Chen: The Only Foreign Exhibitor; Portraiture: A Genre for Political Persuasion?; The Paintings of Hua Lu: Lacking a Political Message?; Surrealism: Modern Art and the Manhua Artists; Cai Ruohong Remembers; Foreigners on Manhua: Two Contrasting Views; A Review by Jack Chen; An Anonymous Critique; Zhang Guangyu's Cover Design for Manhuajie; Manhua: An Art for China's Future; Chapter 7 Chinese Art and its Part in the Worldwide Fight against Fascism |
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Hong Kong: First Port of CallGuangzhou: Caught in the Air Raids; Chen is Sent to Europe and America; Hu Kao: A Shanghai Cartoonist; Hu Kao and Jack Chen go to Yan'an; Epilogue; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei's Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists. The artists involved in what was largely a transcultural phenomenon were an eclectic group working in the areas of fashion and commercial art and design. The book demonstrates that during the build up to all-out war the cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture in the eyes of the publishers and readers of pictorial magazines but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history |
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Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2012) under title: Manhua artists in Shanghai 1926-1938 : from art-for-art's-sake to wartime propaganda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-372) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shao, Xunmei, 1906-1968 -- Friends and associates
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Chen, Jack, 1908-1995.
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| SUBJECT |
Chen, Jack, 1908-1995 fast |
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Shao, Xunmei, 1906-1968 fast |
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Caricatures and cartoons -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
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Art and society -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
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Art -- Political aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
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Art and society
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Art -- Political aspects
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Caricatures and cartoons
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Friendship
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China -- Shanghai
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004307940 |
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900430794X |
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