Format:
1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780520399280
Content:
"Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Lee traces a selection of historical events and controversies in late 1970s and early 1980s Beijing. Lee offers a fresh critical frame for doing symptomatic readings of protest ephemera and artistic interventions in the Beijing Spring social movement of 1978-1980, while exploring the rhetoric of heated debates waged in institutional contexts prior to the '85 New Wave. Lee demonstrates how socialist aesthetic theories and structures continued to shape young artists' engagement with both space and selfhood and occupied the minds of figures looking to reform the nation. In magnifying this fleeting moment, Lee provides a new historical foundation for the unprecedented global exposure of contemporary Chinese art today"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : endings or beginnings? : art as practice -- Democracy walls -- Memorializing Huang Rui's Beijing -- Wu Guanzhong's abstract expression -- The serial images of Qu Leilei -- Do androids dream of me? : Liu Zaifu's theory of the subject -- Conclusion : are Lennon walls also democracy walls?.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520393776
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520393783
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lee, Jennifer Dorothy, - 1978- Anxiety aesthetics Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2024 ISBN 9780520393776
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520393783
Language:
English
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