Hu County, in suburban Xi’an, is famous for its peasant paintings, produced in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. It became particularly famous during the Cultural Revolution, when these works were ...
The traditional goal of aesthetics is to produce, by means of art, impressions of certain past elements of life in circumstances where those elements are lacking or absent, in such a way that those ...
Lasting roughly from 1966 to 1976, the Cultural Revolution was a period of enormous societal upheaval in China, as Communist Party leader Mao Zedong sought to restore ideological purity and a ...
Through advocacy and programming, GANGGANG husband-and-wife founders Malina Simone Bacon and Alan Bacon have managed to change the game for Black artists in just three years, sparking meaningful ...
If you found yourself transfixed and surprised by Connecticut's connections to Ken Burns' "The American Revolution," you may want to check out the book by Joseph Plumb Martin that provided a trove of ...
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Christopher Rufo's new book, "America's Cultural Revolution" (Broadside Books (July 18, 2023). In 1975, the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...
1. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — Why is it called “cultural”? Superficial observations only revealed brutal struggles, large scale rebellion, or a limited civil war in various places.