| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 182 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Chinese contemporary art series, 2199-9066 |
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Chinese contemporary art series
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| Contents |
Reactivating the tradition / Bing Xu, Yu-Chieh Li -- In dialogue with Xu Bing / Bing Xu, Sarah E. Fraser -- Audience participation in Xu Bing's works : transcultural issues in global contemporary art / Bing Xu, Sarah E. Fraser, Monica Juneja, Barbara Mittler, Birgit Hopfener, Melanie Trede -- Beyond ink : contemporary experimental ink art / Sarah E. Fraser -- Borrowed bodies, native tongues : Xu Bing's animalworks / Meiling Cheng -- Two-dimensionality in installation art : the case of Xu Bing, Wenda Gu, and Yang Jiechang / Yu-Chieh Li -- From small woodcuts to experimental printmaking : Xu Bing in the 1980s / Yao Wu -- Behind the painting : Xu Bing's hybrid landscapes / John Clark -- Phoenix Project : an afterimage of labor / Xinran Guo -- The changing paradigm of realism in China : the case of Xu Bing / Xiao Yang -- Art as a vehicle for social change : a biographical history of Xu Bings's œuvre / Chia Chi Jason Wang -- Core events of contemporary art from Mainland China, 1980-2015, Mainland China, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the Americas / Yu-Chieh Li |
| Summary |
This volume offers a path-breaking reassessment of Xu Bing's oeuvre by analyzing the diverse cultural environments in which his work has developed since the Book from the Sky. It contains three lecture transcripts and eight art historical essays; these explore themes such as Xu's animal works, audience participation, new ink, prints, realism, socialist spectacle, and word play. A critical question addressed in this volume is what carries art to a global level beyond regional histories and cultural symbols.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
"The current volume emerged from a series of symposia and panel discussions between Xu and scholars at Heidelberg University in July 2015. It includes transcriptions of these exchanges, which aim to critically re-examine transcultural issues in Xu's art practice, with a focus on Xu's work since the 1990s"--Page vii |
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Sarah E. Fraser is the Chair of Chinese Art History and director of Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University. Her publications include Performing the Visual (2004), How Chinese Art Became Chinese: War, Archaeology, and the Refashioning of Sino-Modernity (1928-1945) (forthcoming), and Women Cross Media: East Asian Photography, Prints, and Porcelain from the Dresden State Art Collection (Arthistoricum, forthcoming). Yu-Chieh Li is the Judith Neilson Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney. She was an Andrew W. Mellon C-MAP Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, NY from 2013 to 2015 and adjunct researcher at Tate Research Centre: Asia. Her publications appear in Art in Translation, Art Monthly Australasia, and post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art Around the Globe |
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Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China, in 1955. He earned his B.A. degree from the printmaking department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (CAFA) in 1981, while earning his MFA in 1987. He moved to the United States in 1990. He moved back to China in 2007. From 2008 to 2014, Xu Bing served as the vice president of CAFA, where he is now a professor and the director of the Academic Committee. He currently lives and works in Beijing and New York |
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Print version record |
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Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Congresses
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Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Xu, Bing, 1955- fast |
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Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Art, Chinese -- 21st century -- Congresses
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The arts: general issues.
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Art -- General.
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Art, Chinese
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fraser, Sarah Elizabeth, editor, author
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Li, Yu-Chieh (Writer on art), editor, author
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| ISBN |
9789811530647 |
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9811530645 |
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