Moving in Step with the Century: Tracing the Historical Footfalls of Chinese Women’s Art

Volume 20, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2021
by Tao Yongbai


Article Description

Yishu 101 begins by looking back on a group of pioneering female artists with a text by art historian Tao Yongbai, who has made women a strong focus in her research since the late 1980s. This essay represents a new feature, From the Archive, created in partnership with Asia Art Archive, to select a Chinese-language text from their collection to be translated and made available to English readers for the first time.


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Tao Yongbai, women artists, Asia Art Archive, From the Archive, New Culture Movement, Populist Art, May Fourth, the New China, female aesthetic