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The Spirit of Individualism
This book is about avant-garde art in Shanghai in the 1980s which challenges the narrative in the current discourse on the appearance of contemporary art in China. Offering fresh perspectives and new insights into the art and the artists of this period, the book includes critical events in Shanghai, that will attract the serious attention of art professionals and collectors. The emergence of the Shanghai art scene in the 1980s mirrors the revitalisation of Shanghai that was tasked to lead China’s economic development trajectory onto the world stage. Shanghai, with its semi-colonial, political, economic and cultural history, including the strong legacy of the early twentieth century modernist art movement, has played a vital role in China’s modernisation and presents itself as a unique case in the evolution of contemporary art in China.
China Avant-garde
Since the mid-1980s, China has seen a flowering of artistic activity that has paralleled and often commented on the explosion in material culture brought about by economic reform. China Avant-garde provides an overview of recent cultural developments and presents examples of works by 60 ofthe most prominent and influential Chinese artists active today . Articles by prominent Chinese art historians detail recent history in the arts, as well as presenting discussions of developments in cinema, literature (including theatre and poetry), Chinese classical and popular music, and photography.
Es geht um die Wurst
Liebeserklärung an ein großes deutsches Kulturgut: WURST Wurst ist viel mehr als nur ein Nahrungsmittel, sie gehört zur deutschen Kultur und polarisiert in Zeiten von Veganismus und Tierschutz. Das ganze Land ist voll mit Wurstgeschichten, nicht umsonst identifiziert uns die Welt als Wurstnation. Als Kunsthistoriker und Wurst-Ethnologe rückt Wolfger Pöhlmann dem Kunstwerk aus zerkleinertem Fleisch, Speck, Salz und Gewürzen kulturgeschichtlich, ästhetisch und geschmacklich auf die Pelle und reist der Wurst auf der Deutschlandkarte hinterher. In dieser Wurstbibel findet sich alles über katholische und evangelische Bratwürste, Weißwürste mit integriertem Senf, spezielle Männer- und Frauenwürste, die Plüschwürste der Kuscheltierschlachterei, Wurstzigarren, Wursttheater, Berichte von Wurstheiligen und Wundertaten mit der Wurst im Dreißigjährigen Krieg und vieles mehr.
Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition
The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took—how artists in the 1980s marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future—emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba—all from scholars and art critics who were players in the tumultuous cultural landscapes they describe—th...
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Performance Art in China
Performance Art in China takes as its subject one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of experimental art practice in China. In his comprehensive study, Sydney-based theorist and art historian Thomas J. Berghuis introduces and investigates the idea of the "role of the mediated subject of the acting body in art," a notion grounded in the realization that the body is always present in art practice, as well as its subsequent, secondary representations. Through a series of in-depth case studies, Berghuis reveals how, during the past 25 years, Chinese performance artists have "acted out" their art, often in opposition to the principles governing correct behavior in the public domain. In addition to a 25-year chronology of events, a systematic index of places, names and key terms, as well as a bibliography and a glossary in English and Chinese, this study also offers the reader numerous previously unpublished photos and documents.
Negotiating Difference
Contemporary Chinese art is still a young field now being opened up to critical academic research. Negotiating Difference is a pioneering collection of articles which engage with contemporary Chinese art in a global context. The contributions collectively address the urgent methodological question of how to describe, contextualize and theorize artworks and artistic processes in and beyond the People's Republic of China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. The studies break new ground as they chalk out the transcultural entanglements of which art and its practices partake and which they in turn reconfigure. The book features 20 essays written by a select group of international junior and senior scholars engaged in ambitious and methodologically innovative research on contemporary Chinese art. Their multi-faceted, in part interdisciplinary approaches are complemented by four contributions by distinguished practitioners in the field, who - as art curators and critics - are located in China and explore key developments within Chinese art and the changing art scene of the last three decades.
