Galimberti Jacopo, De Haro García N., Scott Victoria H.F. (eds.) Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Manchester University Press, 2020. — 367 p. — ISBN 978-1-5261-1746-5.This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely known in the west, the volume demonstrates the significance of visuality in understanding the protean nature of this powerful worldwide revolutionary movement. Contributions address regions as diverse as Singapore, Madrid, Lima and Maputo, moving beyond stereotypes and misconceptions of Mao Zedong Thought's influence on art to deliver a survey of the social and political contexts of this international phenomenon. At the same time, the book attends to the the similarities and differences between each case study. It demonstrates that the chameleonic appearances of global Maoism deserve a more prominent place in the art history of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Introduction: the art of contradiction
Realising the Chinese Dream: three visions of Making China great again
Realism, socialist realism and China's avant-garde: a historical perspective
Engineering the human soul in 1950s Indonesia and Singapore
Framing margins: Mao and visuality in twentieth-century India
The Black Panther newspaper and revolutionary aesthetics
The Red Flag: the art and politics of West German Maoism
A secondary contradiction: feminist aesthetics and 'The Red Room for Vietnam'
Materialist translations of Maoism in the work of Supports/Surfaces
Mao, militancy and media: Daniel Dezeuze and China from scroll to (TV) screen
La Familia Lavapiés: Maoism, art and dissidence in Spain
Maoism, Dadaism and Mao-Dadaism in 1960s and 1970s Italy
Another red in the Portuguese diaspora: Lourdes Castro and Manuel Zimbro's Un autre livre rouge
Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution)
Maoist imaginaries in Latin American art
Iconography of a prison massacre: drawings by Peruvian Shining Path war survivors
Mao in a gondola: Chinese representation at the Venice Biennale (1993-2003)
Reproducibility, propaganda and the Chinese origins of neoliberal aesthetics