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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Contemporary Chinese Art"”.
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
This thesis presents a critical examination of contemporary experimental ink practices (shiyan shuimo) and calligraphy (shufa) in the work of four women artists in the People’s Republic of China – Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin and Xiao Lu. The thesis highlights the gendered histories and …
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Spectacle as Myth: Guanxi, the relational and the urban quotidian in contemporary Chinese art (2005-2008)
… thesis is an interrogation of the spectacle of Chinese contemporary art and the concept of a Chinese modernity, in terms of the legacy from the Communist era, China's social fabric and its urban quotidian. It contributes to knowledge in a way of understanding Chinese contemporary art that is …
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Challenges and reconstructions: femininity in contemporary Chinese feminist art from the 1990s to the present
In the 1990s, feminism became a distinct artistic phenomenon in contemporary Chinese art. Women artists, feminist artworks and women’s art exhibitions have increased substantially since then. Contemporary Chinese feminist art has increasingly revealed its own characteristics regarding gender and …
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Opening the floodgate: the first major exhibition of American art in China's reform era
… the first major exhibition of American art in China’s reform era, The Exhibition of Important Original Works from the American Paintings Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (referred to as The Exhibition) in 1981. As a result of the Cultural Exchange Agreement signed in …
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Sinofemcentrism and its manifestations in art by Yu Hong, Cui Xiuwen, and Xiang Jing
In response to the relative absence of contemporary Chinese women artists and their art in art historical discourses and in the art world, this study investigates the marginalization and symbolic annihilation of contemporary women artists and their art and the research conundrum on this neglected …
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Re-appropriating Chinese Art in the Context of Digital Media: From the Chinese Past into a Mediated ‘Presence’ through Creative Practice
In this thesis, I argue that traditional Chinese thinking and its manner of approaching art can be successfully expanded onto a different platform: digital media art. My research (both in theory and practice) shows how this transformation expands the notions of time and space and forges new …