A Modern Miscellany

Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei's Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30793-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China

In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists. The artists involved in what was largely a transcultural phenomenon were an eclectic group working in the areas of fashion and commercial art and design. The book demonstrates that during the build up to all-out war the cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture in the eyes of the publishers and readers of pictorial magazines but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bevan, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Zeichnung und Zeichnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on the Illustrations

List of Illustrations

Notes on Romanization and References

Notes on Sources

Introduction

A Modern Miscellany

The Cartoon as Part of the Modern Art Scene in Shanghai

The Manhuahu

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Part 1: The Beginnings of the Modern Chinese Cartoon

Chapter 1: Manhua Artists in Shanghai

Marc Chadourne and Paul Morand

Vanity Fair

Western Models of Art and Literature in Shanghai manhua

English Decadence in Shanghai

The Modern and the Decadent—The Cubist Shanghai Life, Lust, and Snake and Woman

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Shao Xunmei and his Circle

Shao Xunmei and Pictorial Magazines

Shao Xunmei and Salon Culture

The Yunshang Fashion Company

The Zhang Brothers—Designers

A Depiction of Shao Xunmei by Wang Zimei

A Letter to Emily Hahn

Part 2: Adoption of Foreign Models in Art and Literature

Chapter 3: Miguel Covarrubias

Covarrubias Goes to China: 1930

Covarrubias Goes to China Again: 1933

Covarrubias’s Illustrations to Chine (China)

Chinese Artists and the Covarrubias Style

“Impossible Interviews”

Large-scale Group Caricatures

Ding Cong and the Mexican Muralists

The Legacy of Covarrubias

Chapter 4: The Chinese Cartoonists and George Grosz

The Art of George Grosz in Shanghai

George Grosz and China

Proponents of the “Grosz-style”

A Foreigner’s View of the Grosz Imitators

Cai Ruohong: China’s “New Grosz”?

The Chinese View of Grosz’s Work

Conclusion

Part 3: The Dissemination of Chinese Political Art

Chapter 5: Jack Chen in China

Chen Arrives in Shanghai

The Cartoons of Jack Chen in Shanghai

Chen and Soviet Socialist Realism

The Letters of Jack Chen

From China to Moscow and London: The Beginnings of Chen’s World Tour

Anthony Blunt: A Champion of Chen’s Cause

Chapter 6: The First National Cartoon Exhibition

A Suitable Venue: The Sun Company Building

The Exhibition

News in the Shanghai Press

Jack Chen: The Only Foreign Exhibitor

Portraiture: A Genre for Political Persuasion?

The Paintings of Hua Lu: Lacking a Political Message?

Surrealism: Modern Art and the Manhua Artists

Cai Ruohong Remembers

Foreigners on Manhua: Two Contrasting Views

A Review by Jack Chen

An Anonymous Critique

Zhang Guangyu’s Cover Design for Manhuajie

Manhua: An Art for China’s Future

Chapter 7: Chinese Art and its Part in the Worldwide Fight against Fascism

Hong Kong: First Port of Call

Guangzhou: Caught in the Air Raids

Chen is Sent to Europe and America

Hu Kao: A Shanghai Cartoonist

Hu Kao and Jack Chen go to Yan’an

Hong Kong: Last Port of Call

Epilogue

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Bevan, Ph.D (SOAS, 2013), has taught Chinese history and modern Chinese literature at SOAS and the University of Oxford. His wide-ranging research interests include the impact of Western art and literature on China during the Republican period and the study of inscriptions on eighteenth-century art objects.