Title: Contemporary Chinese art :
Authors: Gladston, Paul.
Date: 2014
Publisher: Reaktion Books,
Physical description: 318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: Since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping's policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People's Republic of China has undergone a liberalization of culture that has led to the production of numerous forms of avant-garde, experimental, and museum-based art. With a fast-growing international market and a thriving artistic community, contemporary Chinese art is riding a wave of prosperity, though issues of censorship still abound. Shedding light on the current art scene, Paul Gladston's Contemporary Chinese Art puts China's recent artistic output into the context of the wider cultural, economic, and political conditions that surround it.
Contents: CHINESE ART IN CONTEXT. Cultural interaction and exchange from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century -- Realist and modernist art in China, 1911-1948 -- Socialist-Realist and Revolutionary art in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1977 ; MODERN (CONTEMPORARY) CHINESE ART, 1976-1989. The early development of Modern (Contemporary) Chinese art -- Avant-garde art in the People's Republic of China -- The dissolution of the '85 movement ; CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 1990-2001. Contemporary Chinese art after Tiananmen -- The internationalization of Contemporary Chinese art -- Experimental art and social transformation in the People's Republic of China ; CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 2002-2013. Contemporary Chinese art on the global stage -- Contemporary Chinese art and contemporaneity -- The political recuperation of contemporary Chinese art.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, Chinese--20th century.; Art, Chinese--21th century.; Art, Chinese--History and criticism.