Life and Death
：Art and the Body in Contemporary China
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Publication subTitle ：Art and the Body in Contemporary China
Publication series ：1
Publisher： Intellect
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781841507644
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841506265
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781841506265
Subject： J1 Overview of World Art
Keyword： 世界各国艺术概况
Language： ENG
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Description
For all their ubiquity, life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese art. Life and Death addresses that lacuna. Exploring the strategies employed by a variety of Chinese artists who do engage with these timeless concerns, Silvia Fok opens a new line of inquiry about contemporary art in a rapidly changing environment.Fok focuses, in particular, on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals’ bodies, and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography. Over the course of her investigations, corporeality emerges as a common means of highlighting the social and cultural issues that surround these life and death. By assessing its effectiveness in the expression of these themes, Fok ultimately illuminates the extent to which we can see corporeality as a significant trend in the history of contemporary art in China. Her conclusions will fascinate scholars of performance and installation art, photography, and contemporary Chinese art.