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People's Fine Arts Pub. House, Peking [Published Date: 1976]. Oversized Paper covers with French flaps, [80] pp (unnumbered). Text in English. Compiled by the Fine Arts Collection Section of the Cultural Group under the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Contents include 2 page introduction in English, then table of contents followed by 80 pages of full color plates. In good+ condition. Covers have some bumping the top edge of the spine and very lightly along edge. light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From Foreword] HUHSIEN COUNTY in China's Shensi Province is not only outstanding in learning from Tachai in agriculture but is also stepping out ahead in fine arts. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the deepening struggle of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius, especially, have brought great changes to the area. With mounting enthusiasm and revolutionary drive the peasants of Huhsien County are wielding paintbrush and palette to occupy the ideological and cultural field in the countryside and have become masters of the socialist new culture. A group of poor and lower-middle peasant artists, painting as a spare-time activity, adhere to the orientation pointed out in Chairman Mao's "Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art" and are training and maturing in the storm of two-line and class struggle. They are continuing with firm steps their march forward along Chairman Mao's revolutionary line in literature and art. The works of these peasant painters are militant and have broad mass appeal. All the artists are people's commune members—women, youngsters and old people, Party secretaries, production team leaders, militia Company commanders and accountants. They are all pathbreakers in production and at the same time an advance force in culture. With hoe in one hand and brush in the other and taking the Party's basic line as their guide to action, they are active in the three great revolutionary movements of class struggle, the struggle for production and scientific experiment and in carrying out the central task at each Step of the revolution... This album represents a selection from paintings exhibited in Peking in 1973 with the addition of several more recent works