Chinese Propaganda Posters - Reviews
"This engaging array of posters offers lessons both about the obscene spectacle of state-sponsored agitprop (children holding rifles while getting haircuts) as well as the quietly subversive ability of certain artists to undercut the narrative of a worker`s paradise while staying well within the framework of the ideology they were commissioned to espouse."COLORS, New YorkUnited States |
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"Au-delà de l`aperçu historique sur la propagande façon Grand Timonier, Chinese Propaganda posters rend hommage aux illustrateurs chinois, ces virtuoses de la figuration naïve."DS magazine, ParisFrance |
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"Un fantástico trabajo de recopilación y exposición, ordenado por categorías y autores incluyendo extensos comentarios."Noblogue.com, MadridSpain |
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"Les éditions TASCHEN viennent de publier un magnifique album reproduisant un grand nombre de posters datant de l`époque maoïste."Valeurs actuelles, ParisFrance |
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"Délirant. Pour parler aux illettrés, il fallait à la Révolution culturelle un langage simple : d`où ces forêts de drapeaux rouges et ces pionnières enflammées, réimprimées sur papier glacé pour les accros du col Mao."Elle, ParisFrance |
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"Que mille fleurs s`épanouissent… Lors du Grand Bond et de la Révolution culturelle qui suivit dans les années 60, des affiches de propagande tirées parfois à des millions d`exemplaires furent produites pour promouvoir les valeurs de la Chine de Mao. Chinese Propaganda Posters paru chez TASCHEN en offre un panorama graphique éclatant."L'Est Républicain, NancyFrance |
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A giant book for Chinese propaganda posters, but the collection is just so so. Our propaganda poster art center at Shanghai has the best collection about 3000 which can really show the quanlity of the Chinese propaganda posters.Yang Pei MingChina |
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"Beautiful, biting and sometimes hilarious, the artifacts mostly speak for themselves."I.D., New YorkUnited States |
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"Chinese Propaganda Posters attests to Mao as a revolutionary trademark and the superheroic protagonist of a comic-book realm."The Village Voice, New YorkUnited States |
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"Besides reproducing the stunning, otherworldly beauty of Michael Wolf's massive Chinese propaganda poster collection so brightly it practically gives you a suntan, his book gives you a sense of how the illiterate masses used these images instead of newspapers and TV to get the news and define themselves. In the introduction, the brilliant Anchee Min explains how the 1974 poster of a pigtailed girl heroically posed amid martyrs made Min change her own look, which got her recruited by Madame Mao to star in a propaganda film. Soon Min appeared in a poster--or rather, Min transformed, muscularized, rendered in shining primary colors. As you page through the hundreds of posters, you see how nimbly the artists handle symbolism and composition, favoring right angles (Mao rising rocketlike from the horizon of the marching populace) and diagonals (citizens' rifles form an X pattern echoed in the next panel by the US jets they've downed, as Mao crows, "The atom bomb is a paper tiger the US reactionary uses to scare people! It looks terrible, but in fact, it isn't."). Dong Cunrui, who used his body as a post supporting explosives to blow up a bridge, is a common vertical image, balanced by the dramatic diagonal pose (so like Captain America) of Huang Ji-guang, who blocked US machine guns with his body in Korea. Whenever a poster shows a young guy or girl at an angle, battling waves or giving a running dog a noogie, the image quotes Ji-guang, the visual equivalent of a rap sample of an old-school riff. This book should've been arranged chronologically; instead, it's whimsically structured to correspond with the chapters of Mao's Red Book. Even so, you can't miss the amazing shift that came around 1980: unisex suits give way to flashy Western clothes, prim pigtails to windblown coifs, tanks to TV sets and snazzy fridges, socialist realism to Norman Rockwell and Seattle World's Fair futurism."Amazon.com, SeattleUnited States |
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Chinese Propaganda Posters
Min, Anchee / Duo, Duo / Landsberger, Dr. Stefan R.
Softcover, 24.5 x 37 cm (9.6 x 14.6 in.), 320 pages $ 39.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-2619-5 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
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