Xu Bing and contemporary Chinese art
Subtitle: cultural and philosophical reflections
By: edited by Hsingyuan Tsao and Roger T. Ames
Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781438437903; 9781438437910
Subjects: Chinese Art; Criticism and interpretation; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A dilemma in contemporary Chinese art: an introduction / Tsao Hsingyuan and Roger T. Ames; title: Reading and misreading: double entendre in locally oriented logos / Tsao Hsingyuan; title: Reading Xu Bing's Book from the sky: a case study in the making of meaning / Roger T. Ames; title: Seriousness, playfulness, and a religious reading of Tianshu / Kuan-Hung Chen; title: Making natural languages in contemporary Chinese art / Richard Vinograd; title: The living word: Xu Bing and the art of Chan word play / April Liu; title: Transmission of meanings: a study of Shen wai shen (Body outside body) by Xu Bing / Kazuko Kameda-Madar; title: The space between: cross-cultural encounters in contemporary Chinese art / Jerome Silbergeld; title: Appendix. Bibliography on Xu Bing and related issues in contemporary Chinese art / Zoe Li; title: List of important events between 1979 and 2005 / Susan Chang.