ART IN THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Price: $265.00 Code: 1112 |
Directed by Kubert Leung
1997, 33 minutes
Purchase: $265 | Classroom Rental $55
Examines the Communist Party's rigorously enforced art policies during China's Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976, when pictorial artists were given strict aesthetic guidelines for the production of works designed to promote the ideology and imagery of Mao Tse- tung's illusory new society. Through a detailed study of paintings, posters and operas-from their color scheme to their treatment of light and shadow, from the bodily poses and facial expressions and clothes worn by the subjects-the video reveals how artists were politically mobilized, under the guidance of Mao's wife, Jian Qing, to promote an ideology of revolutionary purity.
1997, 33 minutes
Purchase: $265 | Classroom Rental $55
Examines the Communist Party's rigorously enforced art policies during China's Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976, when pictorial artists were given strict aesthetic guidelines for the production of works designed to promote the ideology and imagery of Mao Tse- tung's illusory new society. Through a detailed study of paintings, posters and operas-from their color scheme to their treatment of light and shadow, from the bodily poses and facial expressions and clothes worn by the subjects-the video reveals how artists were politically mobilized, under the guidance of Mao's wife, Jian Qing, to promote an ideology of revolutionary purity.