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Author Gao, Minglu, author

Title Total modernity and the avant-garde in twentieth-century Chinese art / Gao Minglu
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; London : in association with China Art Foundation, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 409 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Avant-garde and revolution in twentieth-century Chinese art -- Academicism and the amateur avant-garde in the post-cultural revolution period (1979-1984) -- The map of the '85 avant-garde movement -- The "China/avant-garde" exhibition of 1989 -- Metaphysical modernity: rationalist painting and current of life painting -- Chan meets Dada: merging destruction and tradition in the avant-garde mentality -- Metaphor over meaning: language art and gray humor -- Kitsch and complicity: the case of political pop and cynical realism -- Apartment art -- Maximalism
Summary A groundbreaking book that describes a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and a modernity that unifies art, politics, and social life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Art and society -- China -- History -- 20th century
ART -- Asian.
Art and society
Art, Chinese -- Themes, motives
Kinesisk konst -- 1900-talet.
China
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262295857
0262295857
9780262296625
0262296624
1283258617
9781283258616
9786613258618
661325861X