Catalogue published in conjunction with 'Unscrolled: Reframing Traditional in Chinese Contemporary Art' at the Vancouver Art Gallery from November 2014 to April 2015.
'The book elaborates on the reasons why artists return to tradition as inspiration, including anxieties around national identity in a globalising art world, providing an opportunity to reflect on how cultural traditions have shaped earlier generations of Chinese contemporary artists, as well as the liberties that emerging artists now claim to transform and integrate in their own practices.
Featuring Chinese contemporary artists who use digital animation, installation and other progressive mediums, Unscrolled demonstrates how tradition can be transformed by individual experiences, contemporary challenges and present-day concerns. Interviews with distinguished scholars and curators, including Wu Hung and Hou Hanru, address China’s cultural patrimony as a source of contemporary artistic practice throughout the early 1980s and 1990s, while focussing more explicitly on the present as it relates to tradition and redressing historical veracity. Illustrations of artworks that undertake literal representations of tradition, as well as those that are less evidently but equally influenced by Chinese cultural heritage, expose the continuous transformation of culture and the ways in which artists are redefining Chinese contemporary art.' - from publisher's website
Includes biographies of contributors and list of works.
'The book elaborates on the reasons why artists return to tradition as inspiration, including anxieties around national identity in a globalising art world, providing an opportunity to reflect on how cultural traditions have shaped earlier generations of Chinese contemporary artists, as well as the liberties that emerging artists now claim to transform and integrate in their own practices.
Featuring Chinese contemporary artists who use digital animation, installation and other progressive mediums, Unscrolled demonstrates how tradition can be transformed by individual experiences, contemporary challenges and present-day concerns. Interviews with distinguished scholars and curators, including Wu Hung and Hou Hanru, address China’s cultural patrimony as a source of contemporary artistic practice throughout the early 1980s and 1990s, while focussing more explicitly on the present as it relates to tradition and redressing historical veracity. Illustrations of artworks that undertake literal representations of tradition, as well as those that are less evidently but equally influenced by Chinese cultural heritage, expose the continuous transformation of culture and the ways in which artists are redefining Chinese contemporary art.' - from publisher's website
Includes biographies of contributors and list of works.
Access level
Onsite
editor
Location code
EX.CAN.URT
Language
English
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
2015
No of pages
156
ISBN / ISSN
9781908966834
No of copies
2
Content type
catalogue
Chapter headings
Chinese Art in Vancouver: Tradition and Contemporaneity - ZHENG Shengtian, 鄭勝天
After Tradition: The Notion of Tradition as a Projection of Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice in China - Carol Yinghua LU, 盧迎華
Reframing Tradition: Unloading the Lexicon of China's Cultural Past in Chinese Contemporary Art - Diana FREUNDL
Traditions without Tensions: Medium and Form in Contemporary Chinese Art - Thomas J. BERGHUIS
Unscrolled: Reframing Traditional in Chinese Contemporary Art
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