History of Chinese Poster Art: From the End of the 19th Century to the Cultural Revolution

Posters originated in the French-speaking areas in the 16th century. In China, they were imported products that came with the influx of Western goods after the Opium War. In the history of Chinese posters, it has created world-wide miracles twice. The climax periods of these two posters have different backgrounds. As a medium for transmitting information, posters also have different contents. In the 1920s and 1930s, commercial trade was the core content, and the artistic exchanges brought by missionary culture were used to promote the cooperation between Chinese folk artists and European businessmen, which not only allowed Chinese society to accept this new thing , also jointly created the first grand ceremony of Chinese posters. In the 1960s, the "Cultural Revolution" led by Mao Zedong brought a second wave of climax to Chinese posters. It takes Soviet art as its form, and its core content turns to political propaganda.

The two poster booms have become unsurpassed records in terms of the number of artists and the number of posters printed. Today, few people know about it. Even the history and artistic achievements of Chinese posters have long been included in the international poster history. ignored. For the first time, the content of this book takes the history of Chinese posters as its core and uses the analysis of artistic value as its method. From the emergence of posters in China at the end of the 19th century to the end of the Cultural Revolution, a time span of nearly a century, the changes in artistic style, changes in the status of artists, and their creative experiences are described in detail.

This book contains nearly 200 precious color poster collections, which will bring new content to the study of Chinese design history and Chinese art history.