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The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China - Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics (Paperback)
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The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China - Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics (Paperback)
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The Avant-Garde and the Popular in China examines avant-garde
performance as an important political force shaping popular culture
in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is
the first book to analyze Han's art and activism and to explore how
an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in
politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with
different ways of being "popular" in modern times. The book traces
Han's trajectory through key moments in the evolution of
twentieth-century Chinese national culture, from the Christian
socialist cosmopolitanism of post-WWI Tokyo to the urban modernism
of Shanghai in 1920s and 1930s, then into the Chinese hinterland
during the late 1930s and 40s, and finally to the Communist Beijing
of the 1950s, revealing the dynamic interplay of art and
politicsthroughout this period. The figure of Tian Han exemplifies
the instability of conventional delineations between the
avant-garde, popular culture, and political propaganda.
Understanding Tian Han in his time sheds light upon a new
generation of contemporary Chinese avant-gardists (Ai Wei Wei being
the best known), who, half a century later, are similarly engaging
national politics and popular culture. Luo shows how, rather than a
landscape of alienated avant-gardists resisting institutional
control on the one hand and a top-down, monolithic Socialist
culture on the other, we find a cultural milieu where the
avant-garde engaged creatively with popular forms and where both
the avant-garde and the popular converged upon political
engagement.
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