The People Eat for Free and the Art of Collective Production in Maoist China.

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  • Author(s): Ho, Christine I.
  • Source:
    Art Bulletin. Sep2016, Vol. 98 Issue 3, p348-372. 25p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      20TH century Chinese art; 20TH century Chinese painting; STUDY & teaching of painting; NATIONALISM in art; SOCIALISM in art; REALISM in art
    • Abstract:
      The Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy's 1958 brush-and-ink painting The People Eat for Free was acclaimed as an exemplary work of collective production (jiti chuangzuo) in the early People's Republic of China. Within a history of theorizing communal creativity, collective production began as a practice of populist nationalism and became the medium of participatory socialism. An examination of the multiple versions and drafts surrounding the painting reveals the contested process of collective production and renders visible intersecting forms of state, official, artistic, and mass participation, while demonstrating the experimental nature of the socialist representational project. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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