TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING C 1984 Hong Kong Museum of Art

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TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING Copyright 1984.  Jointly presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Art Festival Society in Association with the Chase Manhattan Bank NA.  Published by Hong Kong Museum of Art 7 Edinbough Place, City Hall, High Block, Hong Kong, 15~2~84 - 1~4~84.  Book is in Chinese and English.  Produced in conjunction with symposium and exhibit. Hard grey covers with silver English letters and Chinese symbols on front and spine.  Book contains 243 pages and measures 11.5" x 9" x 1".
From Britanica:
Painting has undergone numerous style changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Before 1949, painters such as
Qi Baishi
(1863–1957) developed distinct new styles that internationalized traditional Chinese
aesthetics
. After 1949, pressure for a form of socialist realism made painters shift their focus to such subjects as factory scenes, peasant villages, and convoys of tour buses. But, with the liberalization of the arts that followed Mao’s death in 1976, more-traditional values reasserted themselves.
From Britanica:
Hong Kong’s is truly a mixed
culture
. Not only does the territory celebrate festivals and holidays of the East and the West, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the
Lunar (Chinese) New Year
,
Christmas
, the Western New Year, and others, but it also enjoys hundreds of annual cultural events ranging from traditional Cantonese and other Chinese regional operas and puppet shows to performances of ballet, theatre, and music and exhibitions of paintings and sculptures by nationally and internationally renowned performers and artists. The Hong Kong Arts Festival has become one of
Asia’s
major cultural events.
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