Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lilly Wei
• Luchia Meihua Lee
• Kuiyi Shen
• Alexandra Chang
• Michael FitzGerald
• Morgan Perkins
• Jerome Silbergeld
• Julia F. Andrews
• Eugenie Tsai
• Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
• Wu Hung
• Tom Finkelpearl

Titel

POP, POLITICS, AND PAINTING

Ist Teil von

• Zhang Hongtu, 2016, p.138

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Zhang Hongtu left China in 1982 in search of the freedom of expression that is essential to an artist. He was thirty-eight years old at the time and had come of age during the tumult of the Chinese Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, when Socialist Realism was the only means of artistic expression that was officially sanctioned. Born in Gansu Province in 1943 of Muslim heritage (his father was a noted scholar who translated the Qur’an into Chinese), Zhang was aware of his family’s intellectual, ethnic, and religious otherness from an early age. In reaction