内容简介：
Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists—these were also years of extreme isolation from international artistic dialogue. During this period the Chinese Communist Party succeeded in eradicating most of the artistic styles and techniques it found politically repugnant. By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Through vivid firsthand accounts, Andrews recreates the careers of many individual artists who were forced to submit to a vacillating policy regarding style, technique, medium, and genre. She discusses the cultural controls that the government used, the ways in which artists responded, and the works of art that emerged as a result. She particularly emphasizes the influence of the Soviet Union on Chinese art and the problems it created for the practice of traditional painting.
This book opens the way to new, stimulating comparisons of Western and Eastern cultures and will be welcomed by art historians, political scientists, and scholars of Asia.
作者简介：
安雅兰( JULIA F. ANDREWS ), 美国加州大学博士，其导师为高居翰。现任美国俄亥俄州大学艺术史系教授，中国绘画及现代中国艺术研究专家。她的第一部专著《中华人民共和国的画家与政治》（1994）,被亚洲研究协会评选为当年度现代中国研究的最佳专著，她因此获约瑟夫·列文森奖。
目录：
Introduction
1 Revolutionaries and Academics Art of the Republican Period
2 The Reform of Chinese Art 1949-1952
3 From Popularization to Specialization
4 The Politicization of Guohua
5 The Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath More, Faster Better Cheaper"
6 The Cultural Revolution
7 The Transition to "Artistic Democracy" 1976-1979
Appendix I National Arts Administrators, 1949
Appendix 2 National Art Administrators, 1960
Appendix 3 National Art Administrators, 1979
Appendix 4 Oil Painters in the Soviet Manner
Notes
List of Chinese Names and Terms
Selected Bibliography
Illustrations
Index