Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art

Description

How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and function of the Chinese language and the assumptions of Chinese natural cosmology. Is contemporary Chinese art rooted in these traditions or is it an example of cultural self-colonization? Contributors to this volume address this question, going beyond the more obvious political and social commentaries on contemporary Chinese art to find resonances between contemporary artistic ideas and the indigenous sources of Chinese cultural self-understanding.

Focusing in particular on the acclaimed artist Xu Bing, this book looks at how he and his peers have navigated between two different cultural sites to establish a third place, a place from which to appropriate Western ideas and use them to address centuries-old Chinese cultural issues within a Chinese cultural discourse.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations

A Dilemma in Contemporary Chinese Art: An Introduction
Hsingyuan Tsao & Roger T. Ames

1. Reading and Misreading: Double Entendre in Locally Oriented Logos
Hsingyuan Tsao

2. Reading Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky: A Case Study in the Making of Meaning
Roger T. Ames

3. Seriousness, Playfulness, and a Religious Reading of Tianshu
Kuan-Hung Chen

4. Making Natural Languages in Contemporary Chinese Art
Richard Vinograd

5. The Living Word: Xu Bing and the Art of Chan Wordplay
April Liu

6. Transmission of Meanings: A Study of Shen Wai Shen (Body Outside Body) by Xu Bing
Kazuko Kameda-Madar

7. The Space Between: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Contemporary Chinese Art
Jerome Silbergeld

Appendix 1. Bibliography on Xu Bing and Related Issues in Contemporary Chinese Art
Zoe Li

Appendix 2. List of Important Events between 1979 and 2005
Susan Chang

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Histoire des Arts
• Histoire des Arts
• Película fotográfica
• History of art
• Visual culture
• History of Asia
• Asia
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438437927
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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Xû Bî à Côéôà Cîéŝé A

SU N Y s e r i e s i n C h i n e s e P h i l o s oph y a n d C u lt u r e

Rôé T. Aéŝ,editor

Xû Bî à Côéôà Cîéŝé A

Cultural and Philosophical Reflections

Eîé  Hsingy ua n Tsao a nd Roger T. A mes

Côé îàé:A Book rom the Sky, Xû Bî, 8–; îŝààîô îé; çôûéŝ ô é àîŝ.

Pûîŝé  State University of New York Press Aà

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îûé .Case Study or Transerence #1, Xû Bî, éôàçé à é Hà Mô A Céé î Béîî, . (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.) îûé .Parrot, Xû Bî, îé-éîà îŝààîô à éôàçé ô îé àôŝ, . (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.) îûé .The Living Word, Xû Bî, îŝààîô ô àçîç “î” çààçéŝ à é Aû M. Sàçé Gàé, Sîŝôîà ïŝîûîô, . (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ; ôô: Tŝàô Hŝîûà.) îûé .Five Series o Repetition, Xû Bî, ŝéîéŝ ô ôôôç îŝ ô àé, 8. (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.) îûé .Where Does the Dust Itsel Collect?Xû Bî, îŝààîô î Cà ûôé à çôéçé / ûŝ ô Gôû Zéô, . (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.) îûé .Shen Wai Shen,Xû Bî, îŝààîô ô îé Pôŝ-î ôéŝ, Gîà Gàîç Gàé, Jàà, . (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.) îûé . Preace to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering (Lantingxu ྽๕Ό ), àîûé ô Wà Xîî, î ûî ô àé, ôîîà ŝçîé î Eàŝé Jî éîô, Mî éîô çô, Dîû éŝîô, Kôô Nàîôà Mûŝéû. (Pôôà  Kàûô Kàéà-Màà.) îûé .Saiyuki, îàé ô émanga Mîéûà Kàûà. îûé . Cààçé ôwu ༁ , ô à éàî ô à ŝéçé ôéç ôôŝà ôShen Wai Shen, Xû Bî, . (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.) îûé .Wu Street, Xû Bî, îé-éîà îŝààîô î ôû ôî àîîŝ à àŝîfié ààîé àîçé, –. (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ)

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Panda Zoo,Xû Bî, éôàçé à îé-éîà îŝààîô ô àôô, Né Hàŝîé îŝ î àŝŝ, à çàŝŝîçà Cîéŝé àîîŝ, 8. (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.)

Zà Hôû, é àîŝ à ŝçûûé ô é àç ô é àîŝ’ŝ éà. (Pôôà  Jéôé Sîéé, .)

Drawing-and-Quartering, Zî Lî, ô é ŝéîéŝ Five Capital Punishments in China, , Pîçéô Uîéŝî A Mûŝéû. (Côûéŝ ô é àîŝ.)

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Drawing-and-Quartering, Zî Lî, éàî. Déàî ôStarvation, Zî Lî, ô é ŝéîéŝ Five Capital Punishments in China, . (Côéçîô ô é àîŝ.) Devils on the Doorstep(îéçô Jîà Wé, ). (Tô) Mà Dàŝà (àçô Jîà Wé). (Bôô) Yûà Dî àŝ Cîéŝé àŝàô Dô Hàçé (àçô Yûà Dî), é; Jààéŝé ŝôîé Hààà Kôŝàûô (àçô Kààà Téûûî), î.

îûé .on the Doorstep Devils . (Tô) Cîéŝé îàéŝ (àçô Xî Zî àŝ îàé éé, ŝéçô ô é). (Bôô) Jààéŝé Cààî Sààŝûà ïôîçî (àçô Sààà Kéà). îûé .8 Devils on the Doorstep. (Tô) Hààà Kôŝàûô. (Bôô) Mà Dàŝà à Yû’é (àçéŝŝ Jîà Hôô). îûé .on the Doorstep Devils . Cîéŝé ûé îôàéŝ Jààéŝé ôŝé. îûé .Devils on the Doorstep. Té éà ô Mà Dàŝà. îûé . Devils on the Doorstep. Mà Dàŝà àŝ ô Héàé.

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