| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture |
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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Contents |
A dilemma in contemporary Chinese art: an introduction / Tsao Hsingyuan and Roger T. Ames -- Reading and misreading: double entendre in locally oriented logos / Tsao Hsingyuan -- Reading Xu Bing's Book from the sky: a case study in the making of meaning / Roger T. Ames -- Seriousness, playfulness, and a religious reading of Tianshu / Kuan-Hung Chen -- Making natural languages in contemporary Chinese art / Richard Vinograd -- The living word: Xu Bing and the art of Chan word play / April Liu -- Transmission of meanings: a study of Shen wai shen (Body outside body) by Xu Bing / Kazuko Kameda-Madar -- The space between: cross-cultural encounters in contemporary Chinese art / Jerome Silbergeld -- Appendix. Bibliography on Xu Bing and related issues in contemporary Chinese art / Zoe Li -- List of important events between 1979 and 2005 / Susan Chang |
| Summary |
Annotation This title explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse. The book explores 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Xu, Bing, 1955- fast |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
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Art, Chinese -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
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ART -- Asian.
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Art, Chinese -- Themes, motives
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tsao, Hsingyuan
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Ames, Roger T., 1947-
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| ISBN |
9781438437927 |
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1438437927 |
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