Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780822369288 |
| ISBN10: | 0822369281 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 360 pages |
| Size: | 229x152x15 mm |
| Weight: | 339 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 85 illustrations, incl. 19 in |
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Experimental Beijing ? Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Publisher: MD ? Duke University Press
Date of Publication: 3 May 2024
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Short description:
Examining the cultural and gender politics of Chinese contemporary art at the turn of the twenty-first century, Sasha Su-Ling Welland shows how artists, curators, officials, and urban planners negotiated the meanings of the avant-garde, built new cultural institutions, wrote new histories of Chinese art, and imagined new, more gender-inclusive worlds.
Long description:
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.
"Drawing on her own ethnographic fieldwork, Welland investigates the power dynamics (traditional versus modern, male versus female) that played out in China as the role of experimental art was negotiated and new cultural institutions were erected."
