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The Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: 1966-1976

2002 / ISBN 0-88865-624-6
60 pages, b/w and colour, newsprint

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Exhibition catalogue from The Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution at the Belkin (23 March—25 August 2002) with texts by Scott Watson, Shengtian Zheng and Paloma Campbell. The exhibition features propaganda arts and rare materials such as oil paintings, wood block prints, silkscreens, drawings, mass-produced posters and newspaper cartoons.

  • Paloma Campbell

    Writer
  • Shengtian Zheng

    Curator
  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Exhibition

    22 March 2002 – 25 August 2002

    The Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

    The “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” is usually seen as abhorrent by the West. This politically motivated campaign would profoundly affect all aspects of Chinese life and society, not just for the ten years from 1966 to 1976, but up to the present as the formative life experience for a generation of Chinese writers and artists. Thus far, Western scholarship on this crucial period has focused more on the political than the cultural. Although the period is officially off limits in China and investigation is discouraged, in recent years there has been an immense interest in researching the period. Films of the five model operas and two ballets, produced collaboratively under the aegis of Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife, are today in wide circulation. A section of the Beijing flea market is devoted to Cultural Revolution material. This material is actively collected, auctioned and restored. However, continued political sensitivity has inhibited serious critical discussion of its cultural productions.

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