Playing an integral part in China’s daily life and popular culture for centuries, Chinese folk arts and crafts offer rich, graphic expressions of popular preoccupations, concerns, traditions, and mythology. Popular legends and stories from local villages provide a rich source for imagery. Featuring more than 130 examples, this exhibition celebrated the diversity and vitality of traditional and modern folk arts of various regions in China, including paper cuts from Hebei and Shaanxi provinces, stuffed painted silk hangings from Shandong, embroidered collars from Hebei and Sichuan, batik quilt covers from Jiangsu, woodblock prints, and articles of children’s clothing embroidered with fanciful and emblematic designs.
Chinese Folk Art
中国民间艺术：雕虫小技
April 4 – May 30, 1987
Exhibition organized by Yale University Art Gallery and circulated under the auspices of the Art Museum Association of America; catalogue published by New York Graphic Society; copyright 1986 by New York Graphic Society.
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- The New Yorker
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