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China Power - Art now after Mao

 

UK 2009, 56 minutes
Dir. Pia Getty
Genres: Documentary / Arts & Artists

 

Aroview: A fascinating glimpse into China's modern art market, reflecting the ironies and contradictions of making art in the country's oppressive political climate.

Examining culturally specific art styles such as Cynical Realism while chronicling the development of modern art, from the Cultural Revolution through to today's architectural, design and multi-media artists, this offers a brief, if unprecedented overview of artists' reactions to the socio-political conditions they are exposed to: the suppression of individual expression, alienation and loss of identity in emerging capitalism, and the search for credible historical underpinnings in a country that has censored significant amounts of information pertaining to its pre-1949 history.

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