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Author : Wenda Gu
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015052870469
The first visual and critical guide to the work of Wenda Gu, a major contemporary Chinese-American artist.
Author : Yan Zhou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662454114
This book is the first case study on Wenda Gu that systematically investigates the cultural and artistic context of his life and works, examining selected images of his artwork spanning from the late 1970s to the early 21st century. It is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive and profound study of a Chinese contemporary artist. In the 1980s, the School of Hermeneutics attempted to launch a discursive revolution. Vanguard artists believed that the visual art revolution was an integral part of the critique of culture because it tended to subvert and rebuild the cultural tradition at a discursive level. This book, using a case study on Wenda Gu as representative of Chinese avant-garde, investigates the centrality of culture in art, providing readers with insights on the origin, rationale and methodology of Chinese contemporary art.
Author : Laura J. Hoptman,Tomáš Pospiszyl
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262083132
This text presents documents drawn from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
Author : Wenda Gu,Hood Museum of Art
Publisher : Hood/Upne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 1584657073
This fully illustrated catalogue chronicles avant-garde artist Wenda Gu’s creation of two installations, united nations: the green house and united nations: united colors, commissioned by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, in partnership with the Dartmouth College Library. Part of the artist’s fourteen-year global conceptual human hair sculpture series, the green house and united colors were made from hair collected from the Dartmouth community, combined with colored hair from other parts of the world. The essays and photographs in the catalogue celebrate the profound scope of the ongoing united nations series as well as the creation and production of these two new works, from community hair collection to the works’ installation and the subsequent local, national, and critical response. Along with Dartmouth’s united nations projects, the Hood Museum of Art premiered Wenda Gu’s forest of stone steles: retranslation and rewriting tang dynasty poetry, a series of large books of rubbings from the artist’s massive stone steles. An essay on this installation, followed by a consideration of Wenda Gu’s work within the global conceptual art movement, completes the volume. Catalogue contributors: Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; David Cateforis, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Kansas; Eleanor Heartney, writer and Art in America critic; Allen Hockley, Associate Professor of Asian Art, Dartmouth College; Brian Kennedy, Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
Author : Sarah E. Fraser,Yu-Chieh Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789811530647
This volume offers a path-breaking reassessment of Xu Bing’s oeuvre by analyzing the diverse cultural environments in which his work has developed since the Book from the Sky. It contains three lecture transcripts and eight art historical essays; these explore themes such as Xu’s animal works, audience participation, new ink, prints, realism, socialist spectacle, and word play. A critical question addressed in this volume is what carries art to a global level beyond regional histories and cultural symbols. Absorbing critical essays on contemporary Chinese aesthetics addressing the social context and philosophical concerns that underlie Xu Bing’s key works. The authors analyze Xu’s art, shedding light on the tangled history of socialism and neoliberalism in the Post-Mao period. --Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose, Senior Professor, Institute of East Asian Art, Universität Heidelberg
Author : Edward Lawrence Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415777162
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jeanne Boden
Publisher : PUNCT
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789464590326
In the early 1990s artist Xu Bing stamped two pigs with respectively nonsensical Latin words and fake Chinese characters and allowed them to mate in an art gallery. The performance of ‘two creatures, devoid of human consciousness, yet carrying on their bodies the marks of human civilization’, engaging in the ‘most primal form of social intercourse’ confronted the public with the tension between nature and civilization. The work also addresses the tension between China and the West and therefore perfectly fits the core message of this book. Contemporary art in China takes place in a post-socialist (post-Mao) context, and at the same time a post-traditional one, searching for balance between aesthetic legacy and modernization. It also tries to find its position in the post-colonial globalized arena. This book explores the tension between individual artistic freedom and a dominant discourse of central Chinese government, between China’s cultural legacy and modernization, and between China and a global art world still dominated by a Western canon. As a case study it focuses on the artists who participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993, which was the first time contemporary art from mainland China was structurally invited to participate in a global art context. Jeanne Boden has a PhD in Oriental Languages and Cultures. Her research focuses on Eurocentrism, Sinocentrism and contemporary Chinese art. (jeanneboden.com) Cover picture: Xu Bing, A Case Study of Transference, 1993-94
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9780870706479
Invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand contemporary Chinese art, one of the most fascinating art scenes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Author : Peter Schwenger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781452961071
The first critical study of writing without language In recent years, asemic writing—writing without language—has exploded in popularity, with anthologies, a large-scale art exhibition, and flourishing interest on sites like tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. Yet this burgeoning, fascinating field has never received a dedicated critical study. Asemic fills that gap, proposing new ways of rethinking the nature of writing. Pioneered in the work of creators such as Henri Michaux, Roland Barthes, and Cy Twombly, asemic writing consolidated as a movement in the 1990s. Author Peter Schwenger first covers these “asemic ancestors” before moving to current practitioners such as Michael Jacobson, Rosaire Appel, and Christopher Skinner, exploring how asemic writing has evolved and gained importance in the contemporary era. Asemic includes intriguing revelations about the relation of asemic writing to Chinese characters, the possibility of asemic writing in nature, and explanations of how we can read without language. Written in a lively style, this book will engage scholars of contemporary art and literary theory, as well as anyone interested in what writing was and what it is now in the process of becoming.
Author : Hood Museum of Art
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781584657866
"Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth focuses on post-1945 painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and new media, including interactive and multimedia works. The catalogue comprises several extensive entries on areas of strength in the Hood Museum of Art's modern and contemporary collections as well as over one hundred color illustrated entries on individual works, many of which have never before been published. Featured artists include El Anatsui, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Bob Haozous, Juan Munoz, Alice Ned, Amir Nom, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Richard Serra, and Lorna Simpson." --Book Jacket.
Author : Asia Society. Galleries,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520217470
The late twentieth century has been marked by momentous political, economic, and social change throughout the Chinese world. Deeply rooted cultural assumptions and ancient visual traditions have been challenged by rapid modernization and conflicting global, ethnic, and local identities. Inside/Out: New Chinese Art was the first major international exhibition to explore the impact of these challenges on artists in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and those of the 1980s Diaspora. The multifaceted exhibition and accompanying catalog encompass an extensive range of artistic forms, including installation, video, and performance art as well as more traditional media such as oils and ink. The art is grouped according to themes, some specific to regions and others that reflect widespread and overlapping trends. With the inclusion of ambiguous territories like Hong Kong and Taiwan, the exhibition opens up a perspective of modern Chinese art from the "outside" as well as a looking-out from the "inside." The catalog features essays by eminent Chinese art scholars and curators along with leading curators and historians of Western art. Together they promote Chinese art's rightful place in the contemporary global cultural arena and at the same time acknowledge the influence of its rich heritage. The diversity and freshness of the exhibition reflects the explosion of creativity among Chinese artists during the past decade. The ironic social commentary of Li Shan's The Rouge Series, no. 24, the "apartment art" of artists reacting against the traditional patronage of large museums and corporations, and Wang Jin's sly humor in portraying consumer fetishes in today's China are a few examples of the spirited artistry awaiting the viewers of Inside/Out.
Author : Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C104996274
Author : Ronald R. Bernier,Rachel Hostetter Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000868456
Religion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making, exhibiting, and discussion of contemporary art. Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, critics, and artists, the book reflects on what might be termed an "accord" between contemporary art and religion. It explores the common strategies contemporary artists employ in the interface between religion and contemporary art practice. It also includes case studies to provide more in-depth treatments of specific artists grappling with themes such as ritual, abstraction, mythology, the body, popular culture, science, liturgy, and social justice, among other themes. It is a must-read resource for working artists, critics, and scholars in this field, and an invitation to new voices "curious" about its promises and possibilities.
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Timezone 8 Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9889961709
This volume analyzes the cultural origins, precedents, influences and aspirations of the contemporary Chinese artists.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004304642
This book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, first in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media and gender, and then in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) and in Marxist discourse.
