Contemporary Chinese art: post-socialist, post-traditional, post-colonial
In the early 1990s artist Xu Bing stamped two pigs with respectively nonsensical Latin words and fake Chinese characters and allowed them to mate in an art gallery. The performance of two creatures, devoid of human consciousness, yet carrying on their bodies the marks of human civilization, engagi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the early 1990s artist Xu Bing stamped two pigs with respectively nonsensical Latin words and fake Chinese characters and allowed them to mate in an art gallery. The performance of two creatures, devoid of human consciousness, yet carrying on their bodies the marks of human civilization, engaging in the most primal form of social intercourse confronted the public with the tension between nature and civilization. The work also addresses the tension between China and the West and therefore perfectly fits the core message of this book. Contemporary art in China takes place in a post-socialist (post-Mao) context, and at the same time a post-traditional one, searching for balance between aesthetic legacy and modernization. It also tries to find its position in the post-colonial globalized arena. This book explores the tension between individual artistic freedom and a dominant discourse of central Chinese government, between Chinas cultural legacy and modernization, and between China and a global art world still dominated by a Western canon. As a case study it focuses on the artists who participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993, which was the first time contemporary art from mainland China was structurally invited to participate in a global art context |
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| adam_text | Contemporary Chinese Art
Post-socialist, Post-traditional, Post-colonial
Jeanne Boden
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents
List of illustrations 6
Acknowledgements 8
Introduction: Chinese art? Ethnic art? Western art? Global art? 11
General introduction 12
General research conditions 16
The structure of the book 22
Practical note on the use of Chinese characters and transcription 23
Chapter 1: Chinese art in East and West 25
1.1 Introduction 26
1.2 China: Post-socialist 27
1.3 China: Post-traditional 29
1.4 China: Post-colonial 31
1.5 Discourse, constructs, and limits of theory 35
1.6 Non-Western art in the West 38
1.7 The Venice Biennale in post-colonial times 40
1.8 Chinese artists in Passage to the East in Venice 1993 42
1.9 Selecting Chinese artists for the 1993 Venice Biennale 45
1.10 Conclusion 50
Chapter 2: Chinese art going global 53
2.1 Introduction 54
2.2 The birth of contemporary Chinese art 54
2.3 Main evolutions in contemporary Chinese art pre-1978 55
2.3.1 Chinese art at the beginning of the 20th century 55
2.3.2 Socialist Realism - art as political tool: 1949-1978 56
2.3.3 Underground art during the Cultural Revolution: No Name Group 57
2.4 Main evolutions in contemporary Chinese art post-1978 58
2.4.1 From Socialist Realism to a ‘point of no return’ in 1989 58
2.4.2 Post-1989 evolutions 76
2.5 The Passage to the East artists 80
2.6 Conclusion 90
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Chapter 3. Post-social: Chinese art from socialist to post-socialist 95
3.1 Introduction 96
3.2 Impact of political events on artists 98
3.3 From Socialist Realism to the reality of post-socialism 115
3.4 Opening up new artistic languages and methods 140
3.5 The Mao Zedong legacy 152
3.6 Art and politics: An ongoing negotiation 160
3.7 Top-down discourse past and present 169
3.8 Bottom-up dynamics 175
3.9 Art as part of the economy 175
3.10 Conclusion 176
Chapter 4: Post-traditional: Chinese art between tradition and innovation 183
4.1 Introduction 184
4.2 The spiritual dimension of art 185
4.3 The Chinese language as a source of inspiration 191
4.4 Calligraphy and ink painting tradition in contemporary art 199
4.5 China’s cultural past incorporated in contemporary art 206
4.6 Conclusion 209
Chapter 5: Post-colonial: Chinese art between China and the West 213
5.1 Introduction 214
5.2 Discovering non-Chinese art and taking a position 214
5.3 Exploring the local: One s own Chinese background 230
5.4 Post-colonial: Reviving the local and taking a position 237
5.5 Curatorial practices in the West 240
5.6 Conclusion 241
Epilogue 245
Appendices 251
1. Glossary of Chinese titles in pinyin and characters 252
2. Glossary of Chinese names in pinyin and characters 253
3. Glossary of Chinese terms in pinyin and characters 257
4. Consulted bibliography 263
5. Index 287
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