The Imagined Modern Life in Shanghai: Images of Western Scenes in 1900-1940 Chinese Calendar Posters

• Main Authors: Lo,Yu-Ting, 羅于婷
• Other Authors: 周芳美
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r389n8

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 藝術學研究所 === 105 === The subject of this study is the western scene in the calendar posters, mainly the furniture and decorates, created between 1900s to 1940s. The main purpose is to reveal the appropriation with western print media in calendar posters and the imagination of the modern lifestyle and western in late 19th to early 20th in Shanghai. The thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on the applications of elements in both western and eastern by analyzing the scenes and structures of calendar posters. The applications of New Year Picture, Folktales and skills of the Chinese painting in calendar posters are discussed in the first part of this chapter. Then it views the influents of western print media to the calendar posters by further understanding of the development of western calendar and advertisement in late 19th to early 20th. Chapter 2 compares the style of western furniture in calendar posters to the pictures in western print media. The results not only reveals that the pictures might be appropriated by the painter when drawing the calendar posters but also shows the spreading speed of western print media in Shanghai. Chapter 3 discusses the westernized phenomenon and influents of Art Deco in calendar posters in the 1930s with western interior decorating and furnishings found in the calendar posters.