Contemporary Chinese art. Post-socialist, post-traditional, post-colonial / Jeanne Boden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boden, Jeanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Chinese--20th century.

Art, Chinese.

Art, Chinese--21st century.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brussel : Academic & Scientific Publ., 2014.

Summary:

In the early 1990s artist Xu Bing stamped two pigs with respectively nonsensical Latin words and fake Chinese characters and allowed them to mate in an art gallery. The performance of ‘two creatures, devoid of human consciousness, yet carrying on their bodies the marks of human civilization’, engaging in the ‘most primal form of social intercourse’ confronted the public with the tension between nature and civilization. The work also addresses the tension between China and the West and therefore perfectly fits the core message of this book.00Contemporary art in China takes place in a post-socialist (post-Mao) context, and at the same time a post-traditional one, searching for balance between aesthetic legacy and modernization. It also tries to find its position in the post-colonial globalized arena.00This book explores the tension between individual artistic freedom and a dominant discourse of central Chinese government, between China’s cultural legacy and modernization, and between China and a global art world still dominated by a Western canon. As a case study it focuses on the artists who participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993, which was the first time contemporary art from mainland China was structurally invited to participate in a global art context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789057182150

9057182157

OCLC:

905487202