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Huang Weiqiang
“Exterior View of the Urban Pile”

February 1937 [ms35_000_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Ye Qianyu
“Supply Exceeds Demand, Demand Exceeds Supply”

November 1935 [ms23_021_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Xu Ruoming
“Floating Blossoms Fill the City in Spring”

January 1937 [ms34_000_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Lu Zhixiang
“The New Climate for the Sub-colonial”

January 1935 [ms13_022_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Ji Yehou
“A Regulation Boulevard?”

October 1935 [ms22_044_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Huang Chen
“A Typical ‘Paper-tiger’ Urban Woman”
This is where the General Manager of Customer
Relations for our XX Nightclub, Miss S., lives.

April 1937 [ms37_024_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		“The Coming of Spring” (clockwise from top left)
Tao Mouji: Spring Discount
Shen Tuzheng: Sensations of Springtime
Yang Jiachang: Strong Sympathy
Ding Shen: Settling Spring Accounts

March 1937 [ms36_023_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Lu Zhixiang
“Summertime Life Sketches, One: The Natatorium
(or, The Freshwater Crowd)”

August 1935 [ms20_022_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Zhang Hongfei
Customer: I simply refuse to believe a silk shop of this
size can’t find a modern-style fabric that works for me!

April 1935 [ms16_022_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Liu Xiyun
“Luxury Items”
Spectator A: Let’s hear it! Which of those two do you
prefer? Spectator B: I’d say the one in the little hat looks
good from the back, and the one in the big hat looks good
from the front. So I guess they’re both not half bad!

March 1935 [ms15_022_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures 		Zhou Duo
“Deep in the Night”

November 1935 [ms23_040_ModernSketch]
MIT Visualizing Cultures
Nine Thematic Visual Narratives

1. City Life

The modern city provided endless inspiration for the artists of Modern Sketch. Some took their images directly from life, others concocted fantastic imaginary tableaux. The finest and most ambitious depictions of city life express a deeply ambiguous mixture of fascination and repulsion.
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