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China Landscape: Selections from the Taikang Collection 2019

xhibitions of 20thcentury art from China are freighted with historical ideological struggles—often painted in stark terms between traditionalist and revolutionary approaches, rightist and leftist factions, domestic and foreign influences, with the artist cast as either a propagandist or as an individualist. In that regard, the exhibition “China Landscape: Selections from the Taikang Collection 2019” was a remarkable display of more than 70 works by 55 artists across three generations, from 1942 to the present, that contextualized

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