Contemporary Chinese art is at crossroads, between past and future, between East and West. Against the backdrop of the world’s oldest civilization, artists in China today are at the forefront of what is also the world’s newest civilization. Their works grapple not only with issues of the global and the local, the past and the future, but more significantly, with issues of collective and individual identity. Bringing together images, essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, eyewitness accounts, artists’ biographies and projects, this book provides an invaluable and up-to-the-minute insight into the recent developments, debates and contradictory forces shaping art, exhibitions and criticism in China today, from both local and global perspectives.
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Onsite
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Location code
REF.WUH
Language
English
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Publication/Creation date
2001
No of pages
361
ISBN / ISSN
9628638815
No of copies
2
Content type
anthology
Chapter headings
Recent Riffs on the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Art
Transformations
Zhou Chunya: Heading Neither West Nor East
Cai Jin: Embroidering with Paint
Chen Wenbo: To Imagine Through Painting
Lin Tianmiao
A Transcultural Roulette Game: Huang Yongping's Roulette Series and Recent Related Works
Qin Yufen: A New Look at the Chaos of the World of the Mind
Public Art and the Public Spirit: The Transcendental Nature of Zhong Song's Urban Environment Sculpture
'Who am I?': Li Yongbin's Face Series and Its Reflections on Humankind
Images; Words and Violence: Cultural Revolutionary Influences on Chinese Avant-Garde Art
Re-Staging the Tiger: Feng Mengbo's Taking Mount Doom by Strategy
Remolding a Hero; Remolding Icons
Putting On and Taking Off: How the Mao Suit Became Art
The Rent Collection Courtyard Copyright Breached Overseas: Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Sues Venice Biennale
We Are All Too Sensitive When it Comes to Awards! Cai Guoqiang and the Copyright Infringement Problems Surrounding Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard
Issues in the Third World and Approaches to Contemporary Art
Existence of Art and Cultural Identity: Changes in Chinese Contemporary Art and Its Position
Expanding Space: An Overview of Chinese Sculpture 1979-1999
Chinese Conceptual Art of the 1990s
Experimental Art and Experimental Exhibitions: A Roundtable Discussion on Exhibitions and Curatorship
Reinventing Exhibition Spaces in China
Concerned with Existence: New Developments in Chinese Contemporary Sculpture
Food As Art - A Conversation between Zhang Zhaohui and Wu Hung
Animal Games
- WANG Val
In and Out
The Space 'in-between': Curatorial Strategies for Chinese Contemporary Art
2000 Shanghai Biennale: A Day-by-Day Eyewitness Account
Letters from Shanghai
'We've Become True Individuals': An Interview with Hou Hanru
Taking a Look Behind the Scenes: An Interview with Li Xu
The Shanghai Art Museum Should Not Become a Market Stall in China for Western Hegemonism - A Paper Delivered at the 2000 Shanghai Biennale
The Third Shanghai Biennale: Nobody Wants [His/Her Works] Not to be Considered Contemporary Art
The 2000 Shanghai Biennale: The Making of a 'Historical Event' in Contemporary Chinese Art
Chinese Art at the Crossroads
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