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• Title:Contemporary Chinese art : primary documents / edited by Wu Hung with the assistance of Peggy Wang.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Wu Hung, 1945-
  Wang, Peggy.
  Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
  
• Published/Created:New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Durham, N.C. : Distributed by Duke University Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7345 .C66 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Chinese--20th century.
  Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--China--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xvi, 455 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Translated from the Chinese.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780822349433 (pbk.)
  0822349434 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Contemporary art as domestic movement, 1976-89 : I. The beginning of contemporary art: 1979-84 : Unofficial art groups and exhibitions
  A debate on "formal beauty" and other issues
  New directions in realist painting : Scar art ; Native soil art ; Melancholy youth and "contemplative painting"
  II. The arrival of an avant-garde movement: 1985-86 : Political and intellectual contexts
  '85 art New Wave : General discussion ; Writings by members of selected art groups
  III. From collectivity to individual creativity: 1987-89 : Rethinking the movement ; Rethinking art : Purifying artistic language ; Absurdity and irrationality ; Art as process ; Against the public
  The China avant-garde exhibition : The exhibition ; The "end" of the New Wave
  Illustrations
  2. Globalization and a domestic turn, 1990-2000 : I. Intrinsic perspectives : Artistic trends in the early 1990s (1990-93)
  Major trends in contemporary Chinese art of the mid- to late 1990s : Identity and experience : Self ; Feminism and women's art
  Engagement with social transformation : Gaudy art ; Urban destruction and construction ; Sociality in contemporary art
  Experimental photography and video art : Photography ; Video art
  Overseas Chinese artist
  Debates over using animals and the human body in making art. II. Extrinsic perspectives : Establishing an infrastructure for contemporary art : Contemporary art and the market ; The first 1990s Biennial Art Fair ; The "system" of 1990s contemporary art ; Art medium and criticism
  Experimental art exhibitions and the 2000 Shanghai Biennale : Experimental exhibitions ; The 2000 Shanghai Biennale
  Contemporary Chinese art in the global context : Contemporary Chinese art in the West ; Questions about the "international identity" of contemporary Chinese art ; The Rent Collection Courtyard controversy
  Illustrations
  Coda : Entering the new millennium (2000-2008)
  Chronicle 1976-2000.