Description
Book SynopsisIn this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu, whose diverse works speak to China's past and present, the relationship between Asia and the West, and canonical Western art.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 7
Foreword 10
1. The Displaced Artist Sees Things for Us: Zhang Hongtu and the Art of Convergence / Jerome Silbergeld 13
2. Wall, Gate, Hole: Three Recurrent Motifs in Zhang Hongtu's Art / Wu Hung 37
3. Zhang's Contemporary Cubism / Michael FitzGerald 56
4. The Man in the Moon: A Conversation with Zhang Hongtu / Eugenie Tsai 72
5. "A Hundred Ways to Learn" about Zhang Hongtu / Morgan Perkins 83
6. Restoring the Aura: Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen 101
7. Zhang Hongtu: Playing with Power / Alexandra Chang 114
8. Zhang Hontu's Fashionable Turn / Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu 130
9. Pop, Politics, and Painting / Lilly Wei 138
10. Zhang Hongtu's Queens / Tom Finkelpearl 155
11. What's Next for Us? Zhang Hongtu's Environmental Shan Shui / Luchia Meihua Lee 160
Plates 175
Autobiography 313
Selected Bibliography 323
Guide to Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters 335
Credits 337
