| Description |
245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / by Lothar Ledderose -- Introduction -- The art scene -- Structural features and personnel policy -- Vague directives and devaluation or evaluation of institutions -- Institutions -- A nationwide forum and model : art magazines and symposia -- Artists' groups, events, exhibitions -- Artistic identity : controversies -- Semiotic warfare -- Cheng Conglin : 'Snow on a certain day in a certain month in 1968' -- Luo Zhongli : 'Father' -- Yuan Yunsheng : 'The water splashing festival' -- Wang Keping : 'Idol' -- Huang Yongping : 'Roulette series' : non-expressive painting and non-related events -- Wang Guangyi : 'Mao Zedong - black grid', a revision -- Gu Wenda, Wu Shanzhuan, Xu Bing : deconstruction of Chinese script -- Xiao Lu/Tang Song : 'The pistol shot event' -- Semiotic warfare : résumé -- Appendixes -- Afterword / by Norman Bryson |
| Summary |
Semiotic Warfare looks at the art of the avant-garde art movement in China from the period 1979 to 1989. This book takes the perspective that the avant-garde artworks of the time were a factor in the radical political and social changes in the first decennium after the cultural revolution. The author reveals the relationship between art and the radical social changes after the revolution through an analysis of visual signs employed in works of art that were subject to controversies in that period |
| Analysis |
Visual arts History China 20th century |
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Art, Chinese Avant garde |
| Notes |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-Heidelberg) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-228) and index |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- 20th century.
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Art, Chinese -- Western influences.
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Painting, Chinese -- 20th century.
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Painting, Chinese -- Western influences.
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| ISBN |
9889726297 |
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