Xu Bing: beyond the Book from the Sky

by Fraser, Sarah Elizabeth Li, Yu-Chieh

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Title Statements

Full title :Xu Bing : beyond the Book from the Sky / Sarah E. Fraser, Yu-Chieh Li, editors.

Summary

This volume offers a path-breaking reassessment of Xu Bing's oeuvre by analyzing the diverse cultural environments in which his work has developed since the Book from the Sky. It contains three lecture transcripts and eight art historical essays; these explore themes such as Xu's animal works, audience participation, new ink, prints, realism, socialist spectacle, and word play. A critical question addressed in this volume is what carries art to a global level beyond regional histories and cultural symbols. Absorbing critical essays on contemporary Chinese aesthetics addressing the social context and philosophical concerns that underlie Xu Bing's key works. The authors analyze Xu's art, shedding light on the tangled history of socialism and neoliberalism in the Post-Mao period. --Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose, Senior Professor, Institute of East Asian Art, Universität Heidelberg.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Singapore
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 182 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9811530637, 9789811530630
oclc:on1136967683
LC Classification:N7349.B56
Dewey Decimal:709.2

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Reactivating the Tradition -- In Dialogue with Xu Bing -- Audience Participation in Xu Bing's Works -- Revisiting Ink Art -- Art as Mellorism -- Xu Bings Phoenix: An Aesthetic Image of Labor -- Two-dimensional Space: Reconsidering Chinese Conceptualism in the 1980s -- Thirty Years of Art Criticism on Xu Bing -- The Great Wall of Digital Language: Juxtaposing Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art -- From Small Woodcuts to Experimental Printmaking: Xu Bing in the 1980s -- Breaking Through 'Realism: On Xu Bings Art -- Xu Bing as Landscapist -- Revisiting the Media of Chinese 'Avant-garde in the 1980s -- Xu Bing's Background Story Series -- A Global Map of Xu Bing's Exhibition History 1985-2015 -- A Global Chronicle of Contemporary Chinese Art 1985-2015.

Subjects

Art -- 21e siècle Art chinois -- 20e siècle Art chinois -- 21e siècle Art, Chinese Art, Chinese -- 20th century Art, Chinese -- 21st century Art, Modern Art, Modern -- 21st century Bing, Xu Criticism, interpretation, etc