Chinese Posters

The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and revolutionary heroes were displayed in homes and public spaces across the country.Chinese Posters collects more than 150 of the most striking of these posters and offers background on their social and political context and production. An essay by Ann Tompkins provides a personal account of living in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution.　

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I came across this book in the store of tate modern gallery, and was fasinated by its content. I was surprised that there could be such a book in an outstanding gallery in UK, and it drew my attention on the relationship between politics and arts.

A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power,occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change.

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I'm particularly interested in the relationship between politics and arts in Beijing, because I've seen a lot in the modern art in Beijing, and I will do more research later on.