Zhongguo Tielu Lao Zhanshi Shuhua Sheying Zhanlan Zuopin Ji Collected Works from the China Railway Veterans Calligraphy Painting and Photography Exhibition
1984Best.-Nr. 20260727006Beijing: China Railway Veterans Association 1984. Wrappers. Very Good. 26 cm. China Railway Veterans Association Published 1984. Wraps with French flaps 90 pp.; 26 cm; text in Chinese; illustrated with reproductions of calligraphy and painting in color and black and white and with black-and-white photographs. In Very Good condition. Orange paper covers gold lettering on front cover with a gold winged-wheel railway emblem at lower left. A few small nicks and short tears with light creasing to edges mild shelf wear overall and some color loss along edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogue of an exhibition of calligraphy painting and photography by retired railway workers mounted by the China Railway Veterans Association. Liu Jianzhang's preface dated August 1984 records that the show opened in Beijing and then travelled to twenty-one railway bureaus institutes and works around the provinces where railway employees alone accounted for more than a hundred thousand visitors. Lu Zhengcao 1904-2009 supplies the frontispiece inscription: commander of the central Hebei guerrilla campaign that made tunnel warfare famous head of the Ministry of Railways in the 1960s and by 1983 a Vice Chairman of the CPPCC he cut the ribbon at the Beijing opening. Chen Puru the sitting Minister of Railways contributes a further inscription. Works are captioned with each maker's railway bureau Harbin Shenyang Beijing Kunming Liuzhou Chengdu Hohhot and professional artists sent congratulatory pieces among them Cheng Shifa Tang Yun Wang Geyi and the People's Daily cartoonist Fang Cheng. A closing essay treats the calligrapher Jin Yi'an an Aisin Gioro descendant of the Qing imperial house and four illustrated profiles cover individual veteran artists two of whom lost the use of the right hand and taught themselves to write and paint with the left. Not recorded in WorldCat. China Railway Veterans Association unknown
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