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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / M. Wiseman and L. Yuedi -- Subversive Strategies In Chinese Avant-Garde Art / Mary Bittner Wiseman -- Political Pop Art And The Crisis Of Originality / Yi Ying -- Contemporary Art In China: “Anxiety Of Influence” And The Creative Triumph Of Cai Guo-Qiang / Laurie Adams -- Image-Fabrication And Contemporary Photography In China / Wang Chunchen -- Chinese Contemporary Art: From De-Chineseness To Re-Chineseness / Liu Yuedi -- The Chinese Without Chineseness: Chinese Contemporary Art From Cultural Symbol To International Style / Peng Feng -- Calligraphic Expression And Contemporary Chinese Art: Xu Bing’s Pioneer Experiment / Liu Yuedi -- The Political Body In Chinese Art / Curtis L. Carter -- Gendered Bodies In Contemporary Chinese Art / Mary Bittner Wiseman -- The Second Sex And Contemporary Chinese Women’s Art A Case Study On Chen Lingyang’s Work / He Jinli -- Expression Extreme And History Trauma In Women Body Art In China: The Case Of He Chengyao / Eva Kit Wah Man -- Metaphysics In Chinese Art / Abraham Kaplan -- Water And Stone: On The Role Of Expression In Chinese Art / Mary Bittner Wiseman -- Natural Beauty And Literati Strokes: Shi Tao, Merleau-Ponty And The Practice Of Painting / David A. Brubaker -- Paths To The Middle: A Tentative Theory For Chinese Contemporary Art / Peng Feng -- Current State Of Chinese Art / Wang Chunchen -- Avant-Garde In Chinese Art / Curtis L. Carter -- Post-Colonial And Contemporary Art Trends In Taiwan / Pan Fan -- Experimental Painting And Painting Theories In Colonial Hong Kong (1940-1980): Reflections On Cultural Identity / Eva Kit Wah Man -- The Shape Of Artistic Pasts: East And West / Arthur C. D Anto -- How To Misunderstand Chinese Art: Seven Examples / David Carrier -- Art And Globalization: Then And Now / Noel Carroll -- Concept, Body And Nature: After The End Of Art And The Rebirth Of Chinese Aesthetics / Liu Yuedi -- Index / M. Wiseman and L. Yuedi -- Illustrations / M. Wiseman and L. Yuedi.