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Book SynopsisWhat 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 ContentsPART ONE HERE AND NOW Crisis 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 Working It Out Image-Fabrication and Contemporary Photography in China Wang Chunchen Chinese Contemporary Art: From De-Chineseness to Re-Chineseness Liu Yuedi 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 Through the Body 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 PART TWO HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY Classical 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 Recent History 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 East and West The Shape of Artistic Pasts: East and West Arthur C. Danto 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
