A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China :Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics ( Image )

Publication subTitle :Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics

Publication series :Image

Author: Huber Jörg;Chuan Zhao  

Publisher: transcript-Verlag‎

Publication year: 2011

E-ISBN: 9783839416655

Subject: J120.9 艺术史、艺术思想史

Keyword: 政治理论,世界各国艺术概况

Language: ENG

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Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are on the decline in contemporary China. Critical voices make themselves heard in artistic and cultural circles, turning towards their personal everyday lives to take stock. Their questions revolve around concrete experiences in the radical upheaval of lifeworlds, the continued significance of traditions after many of them have been thoroughly uprooted, and the paradoxes produced by the predominance of neo-liberalism. The 17 positions assembled in this volume provide a vivid illustration of such a »new thoughtfulness« in a wide variety of aspects ranging from aesthetics and art to theatre and photography.

Chapter

The Sound of One Hand: Between Meaning and No-Meaning

The Essential Meaning of Chinese Calligraphy and Its Loss

Literati Painting: Reflections Across Discontinuities

Realism is a Kind of Ideology in China

The Emperors Have Rotted Long Ago, Only the Fragrance of Nanmu Wood Remains

People’s ‘Writing’. bitan (‘pen talk’ or interview)

The Dismantling and Re-Construction of Bentu (‘This Land’ or ‘Native Land’): Contemporary Chinese Art in the Post-colonial Context

Gu Dexin: A Double Take

Art in Its Regional Political Context: Exhibition and Criticism

Two Histories of Art: What Arts Represent China?

Pingyao and Lianzhou: Changes in the Situation of Contemporary Chinese Photography

Evolution of Conceptual Photography and Its Position in the History of New Art

How Much Space of Exchange is there on the Internet in Relation to Contemporary Art?

The Paradox of the Individual and the Collective: An Angle of Observation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre

Can That Be? Why Can’t It Be?

Art That Has Encountered Changes

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