'Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are on the decline in contemporary China. Critical voices make themselves heard in artistic and cultural circles, turning towards their personal everyday lives to take stock. Their questions revolve around concrete experiences in the radical upheaval of lifeworlds, the continued significance of traditions after many of them have been thoroughly uprooted, and the paradoxes produced by the predominance of neo-liberalism. The 17 positions assembled in this volume provide a vivid illustration of such a new thoughtfulness in a wide variety of aspects ranging from aesthetics and art to theatre and photography.' - from the back cover
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Onsite

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REF.HUJ2
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

232

ISBN / ISSN

9789888083374

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Preface - Jörg HUBER

Ink Painting in the Age of New Wave - CHANG Tsongzung Johnson, 張頌仁

The Sound of One Hand: Between Meaning and No-Meaning - LU Dadong, 魯大東

The Essential Meaning of Chinese Calligraphy and Its Loss - KONG Guoqiao, 孔國橋

Literati Painting: Reflections Across Discontinuities - CHEN Anying, 陳岸瑛

Realism Is a Kind of Ideology in China - WANG Chunchen, 王春辰

The Emperors Have Rotted Long Ago, Only the Fragrance of Nanmu Wood Remains - QIU Zhijie, 邱志傑

People's 'Writing'. bitan ('pen talk' or interview) - CHEN Chiehjen, 陳界仁, ZHAO Chuan, 趙川

The Dismantling and Re-Construction of Bentu ('This Land' or 'Native Land'): Contemporary Chinese Art in the Post-colonial Context - GAO Shiming, 高士明

Gu Dexin: A Double Take - CHAN Hoyeung David, 陳浩揚

Art in Its Regional Political Context: Exhibition and Ctiricism - WANG Nanming, 王南溟

Two Histories of Art: What Arts Represent China? - ZHU Qi, 朱其

Pingyao and Lianzhou: Changes in the Situation of Contemporary Chinese Photography - JIANG Wei, 姜緯

Evolution of Conceptual Photography and Its Position in the History of New Art - DAO Zi, 島子

How Much Space of Exchange is there on the Internet in Relation to Contemporary Art? - JIN Feng, b. 1962, ﹝老﹞金鋒

The Paradox of the Individual and the Collective: An Angle of Observation on Contemporary Chinese Theatre - TAO Qingmei

Can That Be? Why Can't It Be? - ZHANG Xian, 張獻

Art That Has Encountered Changes - ZHAO Chuan, 趙川

A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China: Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics
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A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China: Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics