All Posts Tagged ‘Humanism’
Press about Humanism
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Thirteen.org SundayArts segment Sinovision full video The World Street Journal Humanism in China: A Contemporary [...]
Humanism in China
Friday, September 18th, 2009A Contemporary Record of Photography
For Fall 2009, China Institute Gallery has selected one hundred works from the groundbreaking collection of documentary photography at the Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts in Guangzhou. This exhibition, Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography, features modern masterpieces produced by Chinese photographers between 1951 and 2003. These images express an extraordinary range of human emotions and activities in dramatically different settings – urban and rural, public and private – and are of a high aesthetic order.
Appreciation Humanism
Friday, May 15th, 2009Material Culture Humanism
Friday, May 15th, 2009Culture and People Humanism
Friday, May 15th, 2009As the title of this photography exhibition indicates, Humanism in China concentrates on and reclaims as a serious focus of documentary photography individual human lives—a focus that was often suppressed during the first half of the People’s Republic of China by socialist realist concerns with depicting the archetypical, the masses, and conflating individuals with their class status.
History Humanism
Friday, May 15th, 2009One crucial way in which we use and appreciate photography is to record historical and newsworthy events. A photograph such as the one shown on the left of Mao Zedong swimming the Changjiang (aka Yangtze River) on July 16, 1966, is easily recognizable to students of 20th Chinese history.
