Artistic and Intellectual Practices in Contemporary China
China as an Issue
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 21 January 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9789819988143
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages317 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Illustrations, color 681
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Short description:
The edited book elevates a chorus of voices from domestic and international intellectuals, artists, curators, and historians in a dialogue that reframes Chinese art from 1949 to the present. Part I offers critical academic complications of the story of Chinese art from the 1950s to the present as one singularly defined and stifled by political revolution. It traces important continuities and early examples of contemporary art practice to the Party?s birth and consolidation of power from the 1920s onwards. It relates the formation of contemporary art to the historical course of intellectual practice in China from 1949. Part II proposes China as an ?issue? requiring historical interrogation rather than an inviolable entity. It questions the efficacy of ?Asia? as a term, presents case studies of independent publishers that challenged tightly crafted historical narratives, and wraps up with incisive reflections on the challenges confronting creatives and historians in China today.
With chapters ranging from peer-reviewed scholarship to cuttingly humorous personal anecdotes, its contributing authors give rare, first-hand accounts of navigating pertinent historical and current situations, including censorship, China?s il/liberalism, and COVID-19. This book offers readers an ear to heretofore closed-door conversations in leading modern and contemporary art spaces.
Carol Yinghua LU was born in 1977 in Chaozhou, Guangdong. LU is an art historian and a curator. She received her Phd degree in art history from the University of Melbourne in 2020. She is the director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum.
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Part I offers critical academic complications of the story of Chinese art from the 1950s to the present as one singularly defined and stifled by political revolution. It traces important continuities and early examples of contemporary art practice to the Party?s birth and consolidation of power from the 1920s onwards. It relates the formation of contemporary art to the historical course of intellectual practice in China from 1949. Part II proposes China as an ?issue? requiring historical interrogation rather than an inviolable entity. It questions the efficacy of ?Asia? as a term, presents case studies of independentpublishers that challenged tightly crafted historical narratives, and wraps up with incisive reflections on the challenges confronting creatives and historians in China today.
With chapters ranging from peer-reviewed scholarship to cuttingly humorous personal anecdotes, its contributing authors give rare, first-hand accounts of navigating pertinent historical and current situations, including censorship, China?s il/liberalism, and COVID-19. This book offers readers an ear to heretofore closed-door conversations in leading modern and contemporary art spaces.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Other Histories of Chinese Art after 1949.- Section 1 Continuity.- Chapter 1: Chinese Art in the 1950s: An Avant-Garde Undercurrent Beneath the Mainstream of Realism Shao Dazhen.- Chapter 2: A Review of Artistic Practices from 1972 to 1982 Liu Ding, Carol Yinghua Lu.- Chapter 3: Painting in China After the Cultural Revolution: Style Developments and Theoretical Debates Hans van Dijk.- Chapter 4: The Market as Imaginary in Post Mao China Jane Debevoise.- Chapter 5: Prophecy at the Turn of the 1990s Carol Yinghua Lu.- Section 2 Frame of Mind.- Chapter 6: Somewhere (and Nowhere) Between Modernity and Tradition: Toward a Discursive Polylogue between Differing Interpretative Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Art Paul Gladston.- Chapter 7: The Authenticity and the Neutrality of Value: on the Issue of Value in the Writings of Contemporary Art History Zou Yuejin.- Chapter 8: The More Homogeneous, Pure and Clear the History, the More Dangerous It Is Luo Xin.- Part 2: Expanses and Limitation.- Section 1 Universality.- Chapter 9: What is Asia? - On Anthropological Difference Naoki Sakai.- Chapter 10: Creating New Universality Sun Ge.- Chapter 11: Pull Universality Down From the Alter of Being Singular Naoki Sakai, Sun Ge.- Section 2 Particularity.- Chapter 12: On the Founding of The Scholar Journal Wang Hui.- Chapter 13: Some Tendencies in Small-Scale Art Publishing in Asia Lim Kyung-yong.- Chapter 14: Self-Publishing as a Method Lim Kyung-yong, Carol Yinghua Lu.- Section 3 Self-Criticism.- Chapter 15: How We Deal With the Virus Determines What It Is Xiao Yin.- Chapter 16: China, On the Verge of a "Momentous Era" Wang Xiaoming.- Chapter 17: Bringing Back "Self-Criticism" Hong Zicheng.
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