Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese ArtMary Wiseman, Liu Yuedi, Yuedi Liu What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. "Subversive Strategies" paves the way for the rebirth of a Chinese aesthetics adequate to the art whose sheer energy and imaginative power is subverting the ideas through which western and Chinese critics think about art. The first collection of essays by American and Chinese philosophers and art historians, "Subversive Strategies" begins by showing how the art reflects current crises and is working them out through bodies gendered and political. The essays raise the question of Chinese identity in a global world and note a blurring of the boundary between art and everyday life. |
Contents
Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avantgarde Art | 3 |
Political Pop Art and the crisis of originality | 21 |
Anxiety of Influence and the Creative Triumph of Cai GuoQiang | 35 |
ImageFabrication and Contemporary Photography in China | 49 |
From DeChineseness to ReChineseness | 59 |
Chinese Contemporary Art from Cultural Symbol to International Style | 77 |
Xu Bings pioneer experiment | 87 |
The Political Body in Chinese Art | 109 |
On the Role of Expression in Chinese Art | 213 |
Shi Tao MerleauPonty and the Practice of Painting | 247 |
A Tentative Theory for Chinese Contemporary Art | 271 |
Current State of Chinese Art | 283 |
Avantgarde in Chinese Art | 295 |
Postcolonial and Contemporary Art Trends in Taiwan | 321 |
Reflections on Cultural Identity | 333 |
East and West | 353 |
Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art | 125 |
The Second Sex and Contemporary Chinese Womens Art A Case Study on Chen Lingyangs Work | 147 |
The Case of He Chengyao | 171 |
Metaphysics In Chinese Art | 191 |
Seven Examples | 369 |
Then and Now | 377 |
After the End of Art and the Rebirth of Chinese Aesthetics | 393 |
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