Xu Bing and contemporary Chinese art : cultural and philosophical reflections / edited by Hsingyuan Tsao and Roger T. Ames.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsao, Hsingyuan.

Ames, Roger T., 1947-

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xu, Bing, 1955---Criticism and interpretation.

Xu, Bing.

Xu, Bing, 1955-.

Art, Chinese--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Chinese.

Art, Chinese--21st century--Themes, motives.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2011]

Summary:

How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and function of the Chinese language and the assumptions of Chinese natural cosmology. Is contemporary Chinese art rooted in these traditions or is it an example of cultural self-colonization? Contributors to this volume address this question, going beyond the more obvious political and social commentaries on contemporary Chinese art to find resonances between contemporary artistic ideas and the indigenous sources of Chinese cultural self-understanding.

Focusing in particular on the acclaimed artist Xu Bing, this 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 and use them to address centuries-old Chinese cultural issues within a Chinese cultural discourse. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1438437900

9781438437903

9781438437910

1438437919

OCLC:

700735583

Publisher Number:

99946303499