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Title Contemporary Chinese art : primary documents / edited by Wu Hung with the assistance of Peggy Wang
Published New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Durham, N.C. : Distributed by Duke University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description xvi, 455 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Contemporary art as domestic movement, 1976-89 : I. The beginning of contemporary art: 1979-84 : Unofficial art groups and exhibitions -- A debate on "formal beauty" and other issues -- New directions in realist painting : Scar art ; Native soil art ; Melancholy youth and "contemplative painting" -- II. The arrival of an avant-garde movement: 1985-86 : Political and intellectual contexts -- '85 art New Wave : General discussion ; Writings by members of selected art groups -- III. From collectivity to individual creativity: 1987-89 : Rethinking the movement ; Rethinking art : Purifying artistic language ; Absurdity and irrationality ; Art as process ; Against the public -- The China avant-garde exhibition : The exhibition ; The "end" of the New Wave -- Illustrations -- 2. Globalization and a domestic turn, 1990-2000 : I. Intrinsic perspectives : Artistic trends in the early 1990s (1990-93) -- Major trends in contemporary Chinese art of the mid- to late 1990s : Identity and experience : Self ; Feminism and women's art -- Engagement with social transformation : Gaudy art ; Urban destruction and construction ; Sociality in contemporary art -- Experimental photography and video art : Photography ; Video art -- Overseas Chinese artist -- Debates over using animals and the human body in making art
II. Extrinsic perspectives : Establishing an infrastructure for contemporary art : Contemporary art and the market ; The first 1990s Biennial Art Fair ; The "system" of 1990s contemporary art ; Art medium and criticism -- Experimental art exhibitions and the 2000 Shanghai Biennale : Experimental exhibitions ; The 2000 Shanghai Biennale -- Contemporary Chinese art in the global context : Contemporary Chinese art in the West ; Questions about the "international identity" of contemporary Chinese art ; The Rent Collection Courtyard controversy -- Illustrations -- Coda : Entering the new millennium (2000-2008) -- Chronicle 1976-2000
Summary 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
Notes Translated from the Chinese
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Chinese
Subject Art, Chinese -- 20th century.
Art, Chinese -- 21st century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- China -- History -- 21st century.
Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Sources.
Art, Chinese -- 21st century -- Sources.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- China -- History -- 21st century -- Sources.
Genre/Form History.
Sources.
Sources
Author Wu Hung, 1945-
Wang, Peggy.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
LC no. 2010928884
ISBN 9780822349433 paperback
0822349434 paperback