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The art of modern China
\"In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular attention to the dynamic tension between modernity and tradition, as well as the interplay of global cosmopolitanism and cultural nationalism.\"--Back cover.
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Total modernity and the avant-garde in twentieth-century Chinese art
To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global
phenomenon, it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Gao
Minglu: \"China/Avant-Garde\" (Beijing, 1989), \"Inside Out: New Chinese Art\" (Asia
Society, New York, 1998), and \"The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art\"
(Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005) among them. As the first Chinese writer to
articulate a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and modernity -- one not defined by
Western chronology or formalism -- Gao Minglu is largely responsible for the
visibility of Chinese art in the global art scene today.
Contemporary Chinese artists tend to navigate between extremes,
either embracing or rejecting a rich classical tradition. Indeed, for Chinese
artists, the term \"modernity\" refers not to a new epoch or aesthetic but to a new
nation -- modernityinextricably connects politics to art. It is this notion of
\"total modernity\" that forms the foundation of the Chinese avant-garde aesthetic,
and of this book. Gao examines the many ways Chinese artists engaged with this
intrinsic total modernity, including the '85 Movement, political pop, cynical
realism, apartment art, maximalism, and the museum age, encompassing the emergenceof
local art museums and organizations as well as such major events as the Shanghai
Biennial. He describes the inner logic of the Chinese context while locating the art
within the framework of a worldwide avant-garde. He vividly describes the Chinese
avant-garde's embrace of a modernity that unifies politics, aesthetics, and social
life, blurring the boundaries between abstraction, conception, and representation.
Lavishly illustrated with color images throughout, this book will be a touchstone
for all considerations of Chinese contemporary art.
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Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art
How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and function of the Chinese language and the assumptions of Chinese natural cosmology. Is contemporary Chinese art rooted in these traditions or is it an example of cultural self-colonization? Contributors to this volume address this question, going beyond the more obvious political and social commentaries on contemporary Chinese art to find resonances between contemporary artistic ideas and the indigenous sources of Chinese cultural self-understanding.
Focusing in particular on the acclaimed artist Xu Bing, this book looks at how he and his peers have navigated between two different cultural sites to establish a third place, a place from which to appropriate Western ideas and use them to address centuries-old Chinese cultural issues within a Chinese cultural discourse.
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Appropriating antiquity for modern Chinese painting
By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book asks to what extent historical relics have been used to represent the ethnic identity for modern Chinese art? Did the antiquarian movements ultimately serve as a tool for re-writing art historiography in modern China on purpose? In searching for the public meaning of inventively reinforced private collecting activity, the book draws on modes of artistic creation to speak of an apposite use of antiquities through their imaginative links between ancient civilisation and modern lives. It also addresses artistic exchanges between China, Japan and the West and how modernity was translated and appropriated at the turn of the 20th century.
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Fragmenting Modernisms
In Fragmenting Modernisms, Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art.
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Art in turmoil : the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-76
Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period � the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet � and examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age. Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.
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Tapestry of Light
In Tapestry of Light Huang offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Cultural Revolution found in the works of prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers.
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