Mao's Images Artists and China's 1949 transition /

• Main Author: Geng, Yan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: J.B. Metzler, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Arts.; Ethnology-Asia.; China-History.; Asian Culture.; History of China.

In this book, Yan Geng examines Mao's image from the perspective of its producers, focusing on four artists, chosen for both the diverse media they worked in and their diverse backgrounds. The book suggests an alternative perspective on the making of propaganda not only as a politically themed...

Table of Contents:

• Image of political leader
• Art media and propaganda production
• Artists and politics .