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Writing Modern Chinese Art

Author : Josh Yiu,Seattle Asian Art Museum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.

Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art

Author : Mary Wiseman,Liu Yuedi,Yuedi Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004187955

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Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art by Mary Wiseman,Liu Yuedi,Yuedi Liu Pdf

How contemporary Chinese art is creating “a philosophy of life, a philosophy of politics, and a natural philosophy,” as artist Qiu Zhijie says it must, is explored in this collection of essays by philosophers and art historians from America and China.

Modern Art for a Modern China

Author : Yiyan Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000207842

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Modern Art for a Modern China by Yiyan Wang Pdf

How did art reform fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during the Republican period? "Modern art for a modern China" was the rallying cry of Chinese intellectuals, many of whom were artists, critics, writers, poets and educators. Wang describes how these groups discussed and implanted changes in China’s conception and practice of art. She demonstrates how art reforms fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during the Republican period. In doing so, she analyses two key areas in the intellectual history of Republican China: China’s art reform in the early decades of the twentieth century; and the connection and intersection between colonialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, including their direct impact on the development of art and art practice in China. Modern Art for a Modern China is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of China’s twentieth-century intellectual history and art history.

Chinese Art

Author : Maxwell K. Hearn,Judith G. Smith,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9780870999833

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Chinese Art by Maxwell K. Hearn,Judith G. Smith,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

China's entry into the modern era was shaped by unprecedented internal turmoil and external pressures, which brought a forceful end to two millennia of imperial rule and cultural insularity. The essays in this volume offer a variety of perspectives on the impact of the West on indigenous literature, architecture, painting, and calligraphy during this period (ca. 1860-1980). This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art", held at the museum from 30th January-19th August 2001.

Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520289840

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Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scholars investigates Japan’s impact on Chinese art from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s. Individual essays address a range of perspectives, including the work of individual Chinese and Japanese painters, calligraphers, and sculptors, as well as artistic associations, international exhibitions, the collotype production or artwork, and the emergence of a modern canon.

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9780870706479

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Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents by Wu Hung Pdf

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.

The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art)

Author : Jiang Jiehong
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500776285

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The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art) by Jiang Jiehong Pdf

A redefinition of contemporary Chinese art from the last forty years in the context of unprecedented cultural, political, and urban transformation, written by an authority on the subject. Contemporary Chinese art is a subject of sustained and growing significance in present-day culture across the globe. This new volume in the World of Art series reframes Chinese art since the end of China’s Cultural Revolution more than four decades ago, placing it in the context of the nation’s unprecedented cultural, political, and urban transformation. Based on original research by writer, curator, and leading scholar in the field of contemporary Chinese art, Jiang Jiehong, this volume explores the area through firsthand materials and in-depth interviews with more than thirty artists. Providing the most up-to-date understanding of contemporary Chinese art, Jiang includes a variety of media, ranging from painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography to installation, video, performance, and participatory art. Featuring over 150 color images of artworks by more than fifty internationally renowned Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei and Zhang Peili, as well as emerging artists, such as Zhao Zhao, The Art of Contemporary China presents a wide variety of practices through curatorial discussions and images of original installation views and historical art events. What emerges are revelations on art, and new insights into contemporary China. Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to contemporary Chinese art, this volume offers a concise but far-reaching survey of the movement.

Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art

Author : Paul Gladston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783662464885

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Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art by Paul Gladston Pdf

The book presents a range of articles and discussions that offer critical insights into the development of contemporary Chinese art, both within China and internationally. It brings together selected writings, both published and unpublished, by Paul Gladston, one of the foremost international scholars on contemporary Chinese art. The articles are based on extensive first-hand research, much of which was carried out during an extended residence in China between 2005 and 2010. In contrast to many other writers on contemporary Chinese art, Gladston analyses his subject with specific reference to the concerns of critical theory. In his writings he consistently argues for a “polylogic” (multi-voiced) approach to research and analysis grounded in painstaking attention to local, regional and international conditions of artistic production, reception and display.

Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

Author : Julia Frances Andrews,Andrews, Julia Frances Andrews,Center for chinese studies (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520079817

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Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 by Julia Frances Andrews,Andrews, Julia Frances Andrews,Center for chinese studies (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Pdf

"That Julia Andrews has reached sources that are so sensitive and difficult with such success is remarkable. The book is unquestionably a brilliant job, well-written, understandable, and of enormous scholarly value."--Joan Lebold Cohen, author of The New Chinese Painting

Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Author : Minglu Gao
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

Inside/out

Author : Asia Society. Galleries,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520217470

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Inside/out by Asia Society. Galleries,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Pdf

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.

The Art of Modern China

Author : Julia F. Andrews,Kuiyi Shen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520238145

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The Art of Modern China by Julia F. Andrews,Kuiyi Shen Pdf

“The Art of Modern China is a long-awaited, much-needed survey. The authors’ combined experience in this field is exceptional. In addition to presenting key arguments for students and arts professionals, Andrews and Shen enliven modern Chinese art for all readers. The Art of Modern China gives just treatment to an expanded field of overlooked artworks that confront the challenges of modernization.”—De-nin Deanna Lee, author of The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll through Time.

A History of Contemporary Chinese Art

Author : Yan Zhou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789811511417

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A History of Contemporary Chinese Art by Yan Zhou Pdf

Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach – after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s – toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world.

The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China

Author : Gordon S. Barrass
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520234510

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The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China by Gordon S. Barrass Pdf

Over the past three decades it has emerged as a more visually exciting modern genre, which now offers fascinating insights into the people of modern China.".

Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World

Author : David James Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9882209793

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

This title examines Chinese art from the mid-18th century to the present, beginning with discussion of a Chinese portrait modeller from Canton who travelled to London in 1769, and ending with an analysis of art and visual culture in post-colonial Hong Kong.