Jiny Lan and the art of subversion : Chinese-German culture and politics through a feminist lens / Qinna Shen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shen, Qinna, Author.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/c2e2615a-9e7c-db59-3a73-5bf2dfbae11c

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lan, Jiny, 1970---Criticism and interpretation.

Lan, Jiny.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

East and West in art.

Physical Description:

vii, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2025.

Summary:

"Examines the career and message paintings of the feminist conceptual artist Jiny Lan, analyzing a cross-section of works that invite literary, historical, socio-political, and transcultural interpretations. Jiny Lan is an avant-garde Chinese artist based in Germany. A founding member of the feminist art collective "Bald Girls," she infuses astute, politically charged, and iconoclastic criticism into her conceptual and visual art. Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion provides a hermeneutic and critical analysis of Lan's idiosyncratic, provocative, and ingenious artwork. "Subversion" refers not only to her political and cultural subversiveness but also to her iterative technique of reproduction and repainting, which she uses to create a series of genealogically related "sub-versions" of her own paintings. As an émigré and immigrant artist, Lan is profoundly influenced by both eastern and western cultures and traditions. Her immersive experience and extensive knowledge of two contrasting national histories, cultures, and political systems endows her with a unique intersectional positionality. Her artwork is at once figurative and abstract, realistic and fantastic, chaotic and logical, appropriative and creative. It interrogates serious issues such as censorship, authoritarianism, democracy, human rights, sexism, racism, war, migration, and Covid-19, but in a dynamic and often humorous manner. This book lays a foundation for evaluating Lan as an artist whose work invites discussions about portraiture, power, temporality, space, corporality, and sex"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Shen, Qinna Jiny Lan and the art of subversion

ISBN:

9781640142220

1640142223

9781640142916

1640142916

OCLC:

1520221978

Publisher Number:

CIPO000323862