Author: Kraus, Richard Curt
Title: Brushes with Power. Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xii, 208 pp. Textual photos. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Institution of Calligrapgy in Imperial China: Chinese Calligraphy as a System of Power; Demystifying Chinese Characters; The Legend of the Calligraphy Sage, Wang Xizhi; The Brush as an Instrument of Rule; Art Criticism as Political Commentary; Calligraphy and Revolution: The Cultural Dillema of the Revolutionary Elite; The Gentlemen Scholars of the Central and South Lakes; The Failed Assault on Chinese Characters; Leninist Calligraphy for Mass Politics; Cultural Revolution Calligraphy: Big Characters and Leftist Lines; Evil Characters, Poison Pens; The Unsuccessful Penmanship of Chairman Hua Guofeng; Postrevolutionary Calligraphy: Calligraphy's New Conventions; A Personal Art in a Changing Society; The Orchid Pavilion's Modern Legacy.

Keywords: Chinese Calligraphy, China, Penmenship, Art history, Maoist aesthetics, Cultural policy, , ,