The Research Of The History Of The Picture Book's Development In Shanghai (1949-1966)

The editors and illustrators of picture book suffer more interventions from society than other artists. The key to research on the development of picture book is to explore the relationship between art and social change. A panorama view over the development of picture book could be seen with a combined effort of both the"outer research"and the"inner research". Based on this idea, this paper shows many differences never be found in other relevant research work: exploring the object of study in the context of Shanghai in the 1950s and 1960s with analyzing lots of reports on the local newspaper, the variation of the artists'working conditions and the styles of forms of art work both were studied. Then a window was opened to the scene of Chinese Art history and social history from the angle of Shanghai picture book, within the space from the day that the city was librated by Chinese Libration Army to the eve of"cultural revolution".The text included two parts: the preface and the main text. The former summarizes the relevant work of the research, and introduces a background of the history, the latter focuses on 5 aspects: general situation of the development of the line of business of picture book in the first half of 20th century, changes that have taken place in the process of editing and illustrating through 50s to 60s, the variation of the sum of the picture books issued from Shanghai and the situation of book stalls and other relevant service institutions in this city, criticism to the picture book , it's relationship with the other area of art in Shanghai at that time .There are 5 chapters in this article. The first chapter takes a brief view at the background of the development of Shanghai picture book by analyzing the cases like that an open letter's being issued out. The second elaborates 3 new phenomena occurred when the situation of picture book had changed: several objects were set to control the work of editing and illustrating picture book,text is asked to be wrote before illustrate,many chances available to improve the quality of art in picture book. In this chapter, many differences of style of the art work created by several artists would be illuminated. The third illuminates a map of the sum of publish of Shanghai picture book in each year through 50s to 60s in 20th century, and investigates how the book stall and community libraries carry on during the two decades. The fourth focuses on the criticism from readers of picture book, illustrates the mechanic of it and the process how the words of criticism becoming ideologically with the analysis of case studies such as the campaign"against the propaganda of《Wuxun》"and two critical articles. This chapter also explored the view point of the critics occurred recently on the picture book published in Shanghai from 1949 to 1966, and problems exist in the area of criticism at the time the business of that collection is booming. The fifth takes a comparison between the picture book and other art forms such as Print,Illustration, to discuss the relationship between the work of illustrators and art history, and how this art involved into the development of the contemporary art.