| The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949) Contributor(s): Wangwright, Amanda (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004441905 ISBN-13: 9789004441903 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $59.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Design | History & Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.7" W x 10" (1.40 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key recovers the history of a groundbreaking yet forgotten force in China's modern art world. Through its detailed examination of the lives and careers of six female artists--Guan Zilan, Qiu Ti, Pan Yuliang, Fang Junbi, Yu Feng, and Liang Baibo--this book argues that women were central to the emergence of modernist art in early twentieth-century China and to the nation's larger modernization project. Amanda S. Wangwright's analysis of a wealth of primary sources demonstrates how these women constructed public personas, negotiated space within art societies, applied feminist thought to their artistic praxis, and surmounted obstacles to their careers--wielding art as the "golden key" to professional advancement and gender equality. |
