'Contemporary Chinese art is still a young field only now being opened up to critical academic research. Negotiating Difference is a pioneering collection of articles which engage with contemporary Chinese art in a global context. The contributions collectively address the urgent methodological question of how to describe, contextualize and theorize artworks and artistic processes in and beyond the People's Republic of China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. The studies break new ground as they chalk out the transcultural entanglements of which art and its practices partake and which they in turn reconfigure.' - excerpt from the book cover.

This book presents 20 essays written by a select group of international scholars of contemporary Chinese art. It includes glossary of Chinese terms, indexes of names, key terms, exhibitions, and art journals, and short biographies of the authors. Also included are colour plates of select artworks.   
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REF.HOB2
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English

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2012

No of pages

374

ISBN / ISSN

9783897397170

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1

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anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction

Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context - Birgit HOPFENER, Franziska KOCH

Reconfiguring Modernities in China

Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art: Main Issues - John CLARK, 姜苦樂

Landscapes of Exclusion: The No Name Group and the Multiple Modernities in Chinese Art around 1979 - Juliane NOTH

Questioning Representations of Chineseness by Inhabiting Events of Cultural Difference

Destroy the Mirror of Representation. Negotiating Installation Art in the 'Third Space' - Birgit HOPFENER

Cai Guo-Qiang's Fireworks: Igniting a Paranational Landscape - Brianne COHEN

Re-envisioning Chinese Landscape Painting

At the Threshold of (In-)Visibility. Qiu Shihua's 'White' Landscape Paintings - Silke VON BERSWORDT

When Contemporary Art Encounters a National Treasure. Fan Kuan's 'Travellers within Mountains and Streams' - WANG Chingling, 王鏡玲

Concepts of Body and Gender

Reclaiming the Body: Gender Subjectivities in the Performance Art of He Chengyao - Doris SUNG, 宋夏蓮

Elusive Disclosures, Shooting Desire. Xiao Lu and the Missing Sex of Post-89 Performance Art in China - Adele TAN

Strategies of (Dis-)Engagement

Alternative Spatial Practices and Provisional Communities in Contemporary China - Beatrice LEANZA

The Pursuit of Publicness - ZHENG Bo, 鄭波

State of the Art: Davide Quadrio in Conversation with Paul Gladston - Davide QUADRIO, 樂大豆, Paul GLADSTON

The Production of Meaning and Market

China's Emerging Art Market: Debates on Art, Criticism, and Commodity in the Early 1990s - Peggy WANG, 王必慈

Contemporary Chinese Art in the International Auction Market: An Insider's Overview and Assessment in Comparative Perspective - Joe HILL

Neither Here nor There: Notes on a Mediated History of Contemporary Art in China - Pauline J. YAO, 姚嘉善

China and the World of Contemporary Art. Repositioning the Art System in China - Thomas J. BERGHUIS

Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex 'Diasporization' of Contemporary Chinese Art - Paul GLADSTON

Agency in Spaces of Production and Presentation

The Third Studio. How Pedagogical Realism Effects Art Production in the Academy and Beyond - Lee AMBROZY, 安靜

Lost and Found Dogs: Desiring Production in Qiu Anxiong's 'We Are the World' - Wenny TEO

The Dawn of Chinese Contemporary Art in the West. A Look Back at the Making of the Exhibition 'China Avantgarde' 1993 - Andreas SCHMID

(Dis-)Playing 'Mahjong'. Uli Sigg and the Power of Private Collectors in the Global Canonization of Chinese Contemporary Art - Franziska KOCH

Afterword

Critical Reflections on the New Challenges of East Asian Art History in the Global Context - Jeonghee LEE-KALISCH

Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context
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