Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China
This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). Surrealist art was officially prohibited under Mao’s rule (1949-1976). However, the book interrogates potent tensions in clandestinely created surrealist artworks by Zhao Shou...
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| author | Walden, Lauren | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1757-1830 |
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| description | This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). Surrealist art was officially prohibited under Mao’s rule (1949-1976). However, the book interrogates potent tensions in clandestinely created surrealist artworks by Zhao Shou and Sha Qi, who discovered the movement while studying abroad. Furthermore, Walden explores how several European Surrealists aligned Chinese calligraphy with automatism as well as Michel Leiris and Marcel Mariën’s travels to Maoist China and their diametrically opposed visions of the nation. Amidst post-socialism, the book posits that the ’85 New Wave consciously employed Surrealism to process the traumatic Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and react to newfound societal freedoms. Subsequently, the volume considers why a new artistic tendency of ‘surrealist pop’ emerged in the 1990s. At present, Lauren Walden reveals how Surrealism has become officialised and even promoted by Chinese authorities owing to revolutionary resonances between traditional Chinese art and the western avant-garde. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Chinese studies, and Surrealism. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1730182026-06-03T07:59:35Z Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China Walden, Lauren | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1757-1830 Mao Artwork Artists Art history Visual art Zhao Shou Sha Qi Socialist Realism Communist Communism Revolution New Wave 1985 Cultural Revolution Propaganda Beijing Red Travels Group Surrealist pop Shanghai Advertising Political Politics Protest Socialism Capitalism Calligraphy Maoist André Masson Jean Degottex Udit Riegl Christian Dotremont Simon Hantaï Michel Leiris Marcel Mariën Europe France Deng Xiaoping Nanjing Ding Fang thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). Surrealist art was officially prohibited under Mao’s rule (1949-1976). However, the book interrogates potent tensions in clandestinely created surrealist artworks by Zhao Shou and Sha Qi, who discovered the movement while studying abroad. Furthermore, Walden explores how several European Surrealists aligned Chinese calligraphy with automatism as well as Michel Leiris and Marcel Mariën’s travels to Maoist China and their diametrically opposed visions of the nation. Amidst post-socialism, the book posits that the ’85 New Wave consciously employed Surrealism to process the traumatic Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and react to newfound societal freedoms. Subsequently, the volume considers why a new artistic tendency of ‘surrealist pop’ emerged in the 1990s. At present, Lauren Walden reveals how Surrealism has become officialised and even promoted by Chinese authorities owing to revolutionary resonances between traditional Chinese art and the western avant-garde. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Chinese studies, and Surrealism. 2026-03-01T06:11:08Z 2026-03-01T06:11:08Z 2026-02-28T20:25:08Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110379 9781003382393 9781032464671 9781032465814 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173018 eng Routledge Research in Art History open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003382393 10.4324/9781003382393 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003382393 9781032464671 9781032465814 Routledge 1 New York open access |
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| topic | Mao Artwork Artists Art history Visual art Zhao Shou Sha Qi Socialist Realism Communist Communism Revolution New Wave 1985 Cultural Revolution Propaganda Beijing Red Travels Group Surrealist pop Shanghai Advertising Political Politics Protest Socialism Capitalism Calligraphy Maoist André Masson Jean Degottex Udit Riegl Christian Dotremont Simon Hantaï Michel Leiris Marcel Mariën Europe France Deng Xiaoping Nanjing Ding Fang thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art |
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