Since the early 1990s, the phenomenal rise on the international arts scene of contemporary mainland Chinese artists such as Gu Wenda, Wang Guangyi, Xu Bing and Zhang Huan, among others, has been exemplified in the major exhibitions, museum collections, and books and journals in which their work has appeared. What has perhaps been less available to a general audience, however, is a fuller understanding of the complex cultural and historical contexts from which these artists emerged. In this general overview Valerie C. Doran discusses the art of the Chinese avant-garde as a re-examination of, response to and deconstruction not only of the experiences and memories of the Cultural Revolution, but of aesthetic and philosophical issues with roots in the pre-war period and beyond.
The talk was held at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre on Monday, 20 March 2006. Conducted in English. Video by AAA.
The talk was held at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre on Monday, 20 March 2006. Conducted in English. Video by AAA.
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talk,  ink painting,  China
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2006
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Talk: Valerie Doran: Saying/Unsaying: The Emergence of the Chinese Avant-garde
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