Welland Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Experimental Beijing (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art

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Produktbeschreibung

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 nonnormative history of Chinese contemporary art, and imagine other, more just worlds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372479
• Artikelnr.: 54674029

Autorenporträt

Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Inhaltsangabe

Note on the Digital Companion  ix
Illustrations  xi
Acknowledgments  xv
Prologue. Worldly Fables  1
Introduction. Chinese Contemporary Art in the Expanded Field  7
Part I. Art Worldings
1. Xianfeng Beijing  43
2. Showcase Beijing  79
Part II. Zones of Encounter
3. The Besieged City  111
4. The Hinterlands of Feminist Art  135
Part III. Feminist Sight Lines
5. Red Detachment  179
6. Opening the Great Wall  206
7. Camoflaged Histories  236
Epilogue. Recursive Worldly Fables  265
Notes  275
Bibliography  305
Index  323