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Experimental Beijing : gender and globalization in Chinese contemporary art / Sasha Su-Ling Welland.
LIBRA N7345.6 .W46 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welland, Sasha Su-Ling, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Chinese--21st century.
- Art, Chinese.
- Art, Modern--21st century.
- Art, Modern.
- Artists--China--Beijing--21st century.
- Artists.
- Art--China--Beijing.
- Art.
- Globalization in art.
- China--Beijing.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 337 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression found themselves being courted to advance China's international image. In 'Experimental Beijing' Sasha Su-Ling Welland examines the interlocking power dynamics in this transformational moment and rapid rise of Chinese contemporary art into a global phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and experience as a videographer and curator, Welland analyzes encounters between artists, curators, officials, and urban planners as they negotiated the social role of art and built new cultural institutions. Focusing on the contradictions and exclusions that emerged, Welland traces the complex gender politics involved and shows that feminist forms of art practice hold the potential to reshape consciousness, produce a non-normative history of Chinese contemporary art, and imagine other more just worlds.
- Contents:
- Chinese contemporary art in the expanded field
- Art worldings
- Xianfeng Beijing
- Showcase Beijing
- Zones of encounter
- The besieged city
- The hinterlands of feminist art
- Feminist sightlines
- Red detachment
- Opening the Great Wall
- Camouflaged histories
- Recursive worldly fables.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Welland, Sasha Su-Ling, 1969- Experimental Beijing.
- ISBN:
- 9780822369288
- 0822369281
- 9780822369431
- 0822369435
- OCLC:
- 1019839732
- Publisher Number:
- 99976502755
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