Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections

Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections

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Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and function of the Chinese language and the assumptions of Chinese natural cosmology. Is contemporary Chinese art rooted in these traditions or is it an example of cultural self-colonization? Contributors to this volume address this question, going beyond the more obvious political and social commentaries on contemporary Chinese art to find resonances between contemporary artistic ideas and the indigenous sources of Chinese cultural self-understanding.Focusing in particular on the acclaimed artist Xu Bing, this book explores how he and his peers have navigated between two different cultural sites to establish a third place, a place from which to appropriate Western ideas and use them to address centuries-old Chinese cultural issues within a Chinese cultural discourse.“This important collection makes a significant contribution to the study of Chinese philosophy and art.” — Chenyang Li, author ofThe Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy
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Name of the Author
Roger T. Ames
Tsao Hsingyuan
Xu Bing
Language
English
Series
SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN
9781438437927
Release date
2011

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