On The Edge
Subtitle: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter The West
Publisher: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Art
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780937031261
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art, Chinese; Art; Art & Art Instruction; East and West; General; Asian; 20th century
Description: The works in On the Edge represent the reactions of leading Chinese artists to encounters with the West. Some are contemplative musings on the space that opens up when one culture is observed from the vantage point of another. Others are more confrontational comments on Western dominance in the process of globalization. Some take strategic advantage of an outsider position. Each is symptomatic or expressive of the relationship between China and the West.