Blooming in the shadows
Subtitle: unofficial Chinese art, 1974-1985
By: Kuiyi Shen, Julia F. Andrews ; edited by Willow Weilan Hai Chang, J. May Lee Barrett
Contributors: Andrews, Julia Frances; Chang, Willow Hai; Barrett, J. May Lee (Jung May Lee); China Institute Gallery
Publisher: China Institute Gallery, China Institute; Distributed by Art Media Resources, Ltd.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780977405473
Subjects: Chinese Art; Exhibitions; Modernism (Art); Wuming (Group); Xingxing (Group); Caocao she (Group)
Description: Introduces the work of three Chinese artists' groups whose members worked without official recognition: the Wuming (No Names), the Xingxing (Stars), and the Caocao (Grass Society).  They came together following the end of the Cultural Revolution and helped launch the avant-garde movement in China.  These groups of young artists pursued creatively diverse paths to personal artistic freedom in the bleak political environment of that time.  This exhibition catalogue discusses the circumstances of their rise and examines the contexts of their artwork in the critical decade leading up to the Communist Party's 1985 decision to allow modern artistic practices.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985, presented at the China Institute Gallery, New York, N.Y., Sept. 15-Dec. 11, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Chinese characters for selected names and terms: p. 129-130.