A Study of the Occurrence of Modern Design Groups in China in the Early 20th Century
Taking cross-cultural perspective,this paper explores three types of modern design groups that emerged in China in the early 20th century against the background of the fusion and collision of Chinese and Western cultures,i.e.,art college groups created under the ideology of aesthetic education to save the country,industry groups bred in the development of fine arts associations,and enterprise groups bred in the competition of the commercial market.The members of different design groups have multiple identities that are intertwined and overlapped,but in the direction of development,they consciously or unconsciously,through the fusion of the East and the West,and by means of Westernization,all of them have given Chinese design a modernized spiritual kernel,so that Chinese modern design is moving towards localization and nationalization.
early 20th centuryChinese design groupscross-culturemodernizationoccurrence