Art History Narratology And Twentieth Century Chinese Art

Author : Lian Duan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000919424

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Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art by Lian Duan Pdf

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective. Theoretically and methodologically oriented, this is a self-reflective meta-art history studying the art historical narratives while narrating the story of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Thus, this book explores the three layers of narrative within the narratological framework: the first-hand fabula, the secondary narration, and the tertiary narrativization. With this tertiary narrativization, the reader-author presents three types of narrative: the grand narrative of the central thesis of this book, the middle-range narrative of the chapter theses, and case analyses supporting these theses. The focus of this tertiary narrativization is the interaction between Western influence on Chinese art and the Chinese response to this influence. The central thesis is that this interaction conditioned and shaped the development of Chinese art at every historical turning point in the twentieth century. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, critical theory, Chinese studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520911611

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Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China by Michael Sullivan Pdf

This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations, in color and black-and-white, to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements. A substantial biographical index of twentieth-century Chinese artists is a valuable addition to the text. Sullivan discusses artists and their work against China's background of oppression and relaxation, despair and hope. He expertly conveys the diverse and at times bizarre intertwining of Chinese cultural history and art during this century. Included are the intense debates between traditionalists and reformers, the creation of the first art schools, and the birth of the idea—shocking in ethnocentric China—that art is a world language that obliterates all frontiers. The scholarly traditions of classical Chinese painting, the belated discovery of Western modernism, the artistic upheaval under Communism, and China's rethinking of the very nature of art all have a place in Sullivan's fascinating history. Michael Sullivan has known many of the major figures in China's modern art movement of the 1930s and 1940s and has also gained the confidence of younger artists who rose to prominence following the 1979 "Peking Spring." This long-awaited book—richly documented and abundantly illustrated—is a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042581804

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Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century by Michael Sullivan Pdf

Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888455911

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China—Art—Modernity by David Clarke Pdf

China—Art—Modernity provides a critical introduction to modern and contemporary Chinese art as a whole. It illuminates what is distinctive and significant about the rich range of art created during the tumultuous period of Chinese history from the end of Imperial rule to the present day. The story of Chinese art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is shown to be deeply intertwined with that of the country’s broader socio-political development, with art serving both as a tool for the creation of a new national culture and as a means for critiquing the forms that culture has taken. The book’s approach is inclusive. In addition to treating art within the Chinese Mainland itself during the Republican and Communist eras, for instance, it also looks at the art of colonial Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora. Similarly, it gives equal prominence to artists employing tools and idioms of indigenous Chinese origin and those who engage with international styles and contemporary media. In this way it writes China into the global story of modern art as a whole at a moment in intellectual history when Western-centred stories of modern and contemporary culture are finally being recognized as parochial and inadequate. Assuming no previous background knowledge of Chinese history and culture, this concise yet comprehensive and richly-illustrated book will appeal to those who already have an established interest in modern Chinese art and those for whom this is a novel topic. It will be of particular value to students of Chinese art or modern art in general, but it is also for those in the wider reading public with a curiosity about modern China. At a time when that country has become a major actor on the world stage in all sorts of ways, accessible sources of information concerning its modern visual culture are nevertheless surprisingly scarce. As a consequence, a fully nuanced picture of China’s place in the modern world remains elusive. China—Art—Modernity is a timely remedy for that situation. ‘Here is a book that offers a comprehensive account of the dizzying transformations of Chinese art and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Breaking free of conventional dichotomies between traditional and modern, Chinese and Western that have hobbled earlier studies, Clarke’s highly original book is exactly what I would assign my own students. Anyone eager to understand developments in China within the global history of modern art should read this book.’ —Robert E. Harrist Jr., Columbia University ‘Clarke’s book presents a critically astute mapping of the arts of modern and contemporary China. It highlights the significance of urban and industrial contexts, migration, diasporas and the margins of the mainland, while imaginatively seeking to inscribe its subject into the broader story of modern art. A timely and reliable intervention—and indispensable for the student and non-specialist reader.’ —Shane McCausland, SOAS University of London

Author : Minglu Gao
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262294713

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Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art by Minglu Gao Pdf

A groundbreaking book that describes a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and a modernity that unifies art, politics, and social life. 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.

Author : Michael Sullivan (sinologo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1312605977

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Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century by Michael Sullivan (sinologo) Pdf

Author : Julia Frances Andrews,Kuiyi Shen
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015043760464

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A Century in Crisis by Julia Frances Andrews,Kuiyi Shen Pdf

Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Guggenheum Museum, this book systematically explores 150 years of artistic production in China.

Author : Song Li,Weinuo Jin,Yongnian Xue,Guoqiang Shan
Publisher : Cambridge China Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107016614

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A History of Chinese Art by Song Li,Weinuo Jin,Yongnian Xue,Guoqiang Shan Pdf

A lavishly illustrated work covering the history of Chinese art from the Pre-Qin period to the early twentieth century in two volumes.

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789622090002

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Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History by James Elkins Pdf

This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars' writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipline is inherently Western in several identifiable senses. Although he concentrates on art history in this book, and on Chinese painting in particular, these issues bear implications for Sinology in general, and for wider questions about humanistic inquiry and historical writing. Jennifer Purtle's Foreword provides a useful counterpoint from the perspective of a Chinese art specialist, anticipating and responding to other specialists’ likely reactions to Elkins's hypotheses.

Author : Wen Fong,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9780870999840

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Between Two Cultures by Wen Fong,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

The first comprehensive assemblage in the West of paintings on this subject, the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection comprises works in the classical Chinese medium of ink on paper and in the traditional formats of scrolls, album leaves, and fans."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888083060

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Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World by David Clarke Pdf

Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the Worldexamines Chinese art from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, beginning with discussion of a Chinese portrait modeler from Canton who traveled to London in 1769, and ending with an analysis of art and visual culture in post-colonial Hong Kong. By means of a series of six closely-focused case studies, often deliberately introducing non-canonical or previously marginalized aspects of Chinese visual culture, it analyzes Chinese art's encounter with the broader world, and in particular with the West. Offering more than a simple charting of influences, it uncovers a pattern of richly mutual interchange between Chinese art and its others. Arguing that we cannot fully understand modern Chinese art without taking this expanded global context into account, it attempts to break down barriers between areas of art history which have hitherto largely been treated within separate and often nationally-conceived frames. Aware that issues of cultural difference need to be addressed by art historians as much as by artists, it represents a pioneering attempt to produce art historical writing which is truly global in approach. David Clarkeis Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong.

Author : Peng Lü
Publisher : Somogy Art Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 2757207008

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A History of Art in 20th-Century China by Peng Lü Pdf

Lü Peng, China's foremost modern art historian, incisively analyzes developments in Chinese art from the late Qing Dynasty through to the opening years of the 21st century in this new revised edition of A History of Art in 20th-Century China, published for the first time simultaneously in French and English editions. The art that emerged over the course of a troubled century and more of Chinese history reveals a complex evolution with intrinsic connections to contemporary life. Lü Peng ably charts that evolution, not only in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but also in important centers such as Paris and Tokyo. This comprehensive narrative will remain for many years the reference to which those seeking knowledge of this history will inevitably turn.

Author : Josh Yiu,Seattle Asian Art Museum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080889077

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Writing Modern Chinese Art by Josh Yiu,Seattle Asian Art Museum Pdf

The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characteristics of modern Chinese art. Just as the definition of "modernity" was subjected to reinterpretations at various points in China's recent history, current notions of the canon are likewise subjected to change. This book -- consisting of ten articles by art historians, artist, historian, and curator -- explores the developments of Chinese art in the 20th century, applying critical theories to question and reinterpret concepts that are normally taken for granted. Their writings also reveal the thought processes in which the authors filtered what they considered to be important information, especially regarding people, events, dates, and artworks. As such, the topic of each article is, in itself, a result of judicious selection. This volume demonstrates how modern Chinese art history has been -- and can be -- written.

Author : Ellen Johnston Laing
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015041925853

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An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists by Ellen Johnston Laing Pdf

First published in 1984, this index of Chinese paintings includes entries for approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to the 1980s. Formerly Professor of Oriental Art, University of Oregon, Ellen Johnston Laing is a research associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. She has written many articles on Chinese painting and popular culture, as well as The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China.

Author : Wu Hung,David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226360717

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Transience by Wu Hung,David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art Pdf

Wu Hung, a leading expert on ancient and contemporary Chinese art, has identified three critical aspects of current artistic production in China - demystification, ruins, and transience.