Subversive strategies in contemporary Chinese art / edited by Mary Bittner Wiseman, Liu Yuedi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Liu, Yuedi.; Wiseman, Mary Bittner.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy of History and Culture 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Subversive Strategies In Chinese Avant-Garde Art /; Political Pop Art And The Crisis Of Originality /; Contemporary Art In China: “Anxiety Of Influence” And The Creative Triumph Of Cai Guo-Qiang /; Image-Fabrication And Contemporary Photography In China /; Chinese Contemporary Art: From De-Chineseness To Re-Chineseness /; The Chinese Without Chineseness: Chinese Contemporary Art From Cultural Symbol To International Style /; Calligraphic Expression And Contemporary Chinese Art: Xu Bing’s Pioneer Experiment /; The Political Body In Chinese Art /; Gendered Bodies In Contemporary Chinese Art /; The Second Sex And Contemporary Chinese Women’s Art A Case Study On Chen Lingyang’s Work /; Expression Extreme And History Trauma In Women Body Art In China: The Case Of He Chengyao /; Metaphysics In Chinese Art /; Water And Stone: On The Role Of Expression In Chinese Art /; Natural Beauty And Literati Strokes: Shi Tao, Merleau-Ponty And The Practice Of Painting /; Paths To The Middle: A Tentative Theory For Chinese Contemporary Art /; Current State Of Chinese Art /; Avant-Garde In Chinese Art /; Post-Colonial And Contemporary Art Trends In Taiwan /; Experimental Painting And Painting Theories In Colonial Hong Kong (1940-1980): Reflections On Cultural Identity /; The Shape Of Artistic Pasts: East And West /; How To Misunderstand Chinese Art: Seven Examples /; Art And Globalization: Then And Now /; Concept, Body And Nature: After The End Of Art And The Rebirth Of Chinese Aesthetics /; Index /; Illustrations /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283119773; 9786613119773; 9004201475
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mary Bittner Wiseman, Liu Yuedi.

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.