Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Ashmolean − Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Art in China in the 1960s and 1970s

(from 15th Apr 2011 until 15th Jan 2012)

Explore woodblock prints and ink paintings from around the period of the Cultural Revolution in China.

Detail of Dancing: Highland Barley Series No. 2, China, 1961 (Museum no. EA2007.80)

Woodblock prints

Political subjects

We Are the Force Criticizing Lin Biao and Confucius (EA2007.57) We Are the Force Criticizing Lin Biao and Confucius (EA2007.57)

Great Northern Wilderness School

The First Track of Footprints (EA2007.9) The First Track of Footprints (EA2007.9)   September in the North (EA2007.8) September in the North (EA2007.8)
Golden Sea (EA2007.79) Golden Sea (EA2007.79)
Heroes and Heroines Are All Around (EA2007.90) Heroes and Heroines Are All Around (EA2007.90)   The Return of the Graduate (EA2007.43) The Return of the Graduate (EA2007.43)

Sichuan School

Village School (EA2007.63) Village School (EA2007.63)   Reading Hard (EA2007.35) Reading Hard (EA2007.35)   Dancing (EA2007.80) Dancing (EA2007.80)

Jiangsu shuiyin School

Qixia Mountain (EA2007.86) Qixia Mountain (EA2007.86)
Khoan (second from left) and Michael Sullivan (fourth from left) with Song Wenzhi (fifth from left),, Photograph courtesy of Khoan and Michael Sullivan. © Michael Sullivan Khoan (second from left) and Michael Sullivan (fourth from left) with Song Wenzhi (fifth from left),.

Critical responses

Ah Q's vision of revolution (EA2007.223.b) Ah Q's vision of revolution (EA2007.223.b)   Ah Q's execution (EA2007.224.i) Ah Q's execution (EA2007.224.i)   Spring Outing (EA2007.58) Spring Outing (EA2007.58)
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