Contemporary Chinese Art

Primary Documents
Herausgeber: Wu Hung; Wang, Peggy

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Produktbeschreibung

Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. His many books include Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, and (with Christopher Phillips) Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. He has curated many international exhibitions of Chinese art. Peggy Wang is Assistant Professor of Art History at Denison University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 170mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1520g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349433
• ISBN-10: 0822349434
• Artikelnr.: 30366545

Autorenporträt

Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. His many books include Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, and (with Christopher Phillips) Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. He has curated many international exhibitions of Chinese art. Peggy Wang is Assistant Professor of Art History at Denison University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Contemporary Art as Domestic Movement, 1976–89
I. The Beginning of Contemporary Art: 1979–84
Introduction
Unofficial Art Groups and Exhibitions
Preface to the First Nature, Society, and Man Exhibition (Ziran, shehui,
ren) (1979) / Wang Zhiping
Preface to the First Stars Art Exhibition (Xingxing meizhan) (1979) / Huang
Rui
A Letter to the People (1979) / Xu Wenli, Liu Qing, et al
About the Stars Art Exhibition (1980) / Li Xianting
A Debate on "Formal Beauty" and Other Issues
Formalist Aesthetics in Painting (1979) / Wu Guanzhong
Emotion Individuality, Formal Aesthetics (1979) / Liu Shaohui
New Directions in Realist Painting
Scar Art
Some Thoughts on Creating the Picture-Story Book Maple (Feng) (1980) / Chen
Yiming, Liu Yulian, and Li Bin
Man's Rational Meditation: A Brief Discussion of Cheng Conglin's Thematic
Oil Paintings (1970s/1994) / Deng Pingxiang
Native Soil Art
A Letter from the Artist of Father (Fuqin) (1981) / Lui Zhongli
My Seven Paintings (1981) / Chen Danqing
Melancholy Youth and "Contemplative Painting"
Expecting Her to Walk on the Main Road (1981) / Wang Chuan
"Contemplative Painting" in China and Andrew Wyeth (1985) / Ruan Xudong
II. The Arrival of an Avant-Garde Movement: 1985–86
Political and Intellectual Contexts
Enlightenment of a New Era: On In the New Era (Zai xinshidai) (1985) /
Zhang Qun and Meng Luding
Pioneers of Contemporary Chinese Art—A Critique of the Progressive Young
Chinese Artists Exhibition (1985) / Zhao Jinghaun
Beijing Theorists' Reaction to the Art of Robert Rauschenberg (1985) / Zhu
Ye
Foreword to Fine Arts in China (1985)
Appendix. A Nationwide Forum and Model: Art Magazines and Symposia (2003) /
Martina Koppel-Yang
'85 Art New Wave
General Discussions
The '85 Art Movement (1986) / Gao Minglu
The Significance is Not the Art (1986) / Li Jiatun
A Summary of Evaluations of the '85 Arts Movement (1986) / Gao Minglu
Appendix. The Landscape of China's Modern Art Movment (1991) / Tong Dian
Writings by Members of Selected Art Groups
We—Participants of the "'85 Art Movement" (1986) / Wang Guangyi
An Explanation of the Northern Art Group (1987) / Shu Qun
On New Space and the Pond Society (1987) / Shi Jiu
New Figurative: Manifestation and Transcendence in Figurative Patterns of
Life (1987) / Mao Xuhui
Red Brigade Precept (1987) / Ding Fang
Statement on Burning (1986) / Huang Yong Ping
Introduction to The Events Exhibition that Took Place at the Exhibition
Hall of the Fujian Art Museum (1986) / Huang Yong Ping
Toward a Physical State of Contemporary Art Itself (1986) / Wang Du
III. From Collectivity to Individual Creativity: 1987—89
Rethinking the Movement
Returning to Art Itself (1988) / Jia Fangzhou
Rethinking Art
Purifying Artistic Language
A Few Thoughts (1988) / Zhu Zude and Liu Zhenggang
Absurdity and Irrationality
Non-Expressive Paintings (1986) / Huang Yong Ping
Art as Process
Looking for Something Different in a Quiet Place (1989) / Xu Bing
Regarding "Analysis" (1989) / Chen Shaoping
Challenging Modernism—An Interview with Wenda Gu (1986) / Fei Dawei
Against the Public
The Point of Departure for Art Project No. 2 (Yishu jihua di er hao)
(1988/2007) / Zhang Peili
The China/Avant-Garde Exhibition
The Exhibition
Background Material on the China/Avant-Garde Exhibition (1989) / Zhou Yan
Confessions of a China/Avant-Garde Curator (1989) / Li Xianting
A Brief Account of China/Avant-Garde (1989) / Hang Jian and Cao Xiao'ou
The "End" of the New Wave
Facing the End of the New Wave: An Interview with Fine Arts in China
(1989) / Peng De
The Modernist Dilemma and Our Options (1989) / Yi Ying
Part Two: Globalization and a Domestic Turn, 1990–2000
I. Intrinsic Perspectives
Artistic Trends in the Early 1990s (1990–93)
New Generation and Close Up Artists (1992) / Yin Jinan
Apathy and Deconstruction in Post-'89 Art: Analyzing the Trends of "Cynical
Realism" and "Political Pop" (1992) / Li Xianting
Appendix. The Misread Great Criticism (Da pipan) (2008) / Huang Zhuan
Tendencies in Chinese Pop (1996) / Gu Chengfeng
A Survey of Contemporary Chinese Performance Art (1999) / Gao Ling
Major Trends in Contemporary Chinese Art of the Mid- to Late 1990s
Identity and Experience
Self
A Personal Account of 65 Kg (1994/2000) / Zhang Huan
Four Notes (1994) / Ma Liuming
The Boundary of Freedom: A Personal Statement on Assignment No. 1 (Zuoye
yihao) (1994/2000) / Qiu Zhijie
Report from the Artist's Studio (1996) / Interview with Zhang Xiaogang by
Huang Zhuan
Preface to It's Me! (Shi wo!) (1998/2000) / Leng Lin
Feminism and Women's Art
Walking Out of the Abyss: My Feminist Critique (1994) / Xu Hong
Toward a Female Initiative (1996/2003) / Tao Yongbai
Wrapping and Severing (1997) / Lin Tianmiao
Clothes Chest (Yixiang) (1995) / Yin Xiuzhen
Engagement with Social Transformation
Gaudy Art
Living in Kitsch—The Critical "Irony" of Gaudy Art (1999) / Liao Wen
Urban Destruction and Construction
"Changchun, China": A Report on a Performance of Making Rubbings from
Buildings Slated for Demolition (1994) / Huang Yan
"94 Action Plan for Debris Salvage Schemes for Implementation and Results
(1994) / Zhan Wang
New Map of Beijing: Today and Tomorrow's Capital—Rockery Remolding Plan
(1995) / Zhan Wang
One Hour Game (Youxi yi Xiaoshi) (1996/1997) / Liang Juhui
Report on Zhang Dali's Dialogue (Duihua) (1998) / Jiang Tao
A Dialogue on Dialogue (200) / Gou Hongbing with Zhang Dali
Sociality in Contemporary Art
State of Existence (1994) / Zhu Fadong
12 Square Meters (12 pingfang mi) (1994) / Zhang Huan
Ice '96 Central Plains (Bing: 96 Zhongyuan) (1996/2000) / Wang Jin
On Painted Sculptures (1995/1997) / Liu Jianhua
Standard Family (Biaozhun jiating) (1996/1997) / Wang Jinsong
Why do I want to photograph the streets of Guangzhou? (2002) / Chen
Shaoxiong
Experimental Photography and Video Art
Photography
Trends and States of Photography's Development in Mainland China since 1976
(1994) / Li Mei and Yang Xiaoyan
Appendix. Zero to Infinity: