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Questioning what the term 'Chinese art' means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in the matrix of global expositions and political transnationalisms. Its case studies explore the changing political concept of Chineseness by examining performative, body-oriented video and eco-feminist works.
List of contents
Introduction: staging art and Chineseness
1 Chineseness as a theoretical, historical and political problem in global art and exhibition
2 Patty Chang and the transnational cinematic subject of Chineseness
3 Environment, labor, and video: (eco) feminist interpellations of Chineseness in the work of Yuk King Tan, Cao Fei, Wu Mali
4 The dialectical image of empire
5 The archive of Chineseness: the global exposition and the museum
Index
About the author
Jane Chin Davidson is Associate Professor of Art History and Contemporary Global Art at California State University, San Bernardino
Summary
Questioning what the term ‘Chinese art’ means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in the matrix of global expositions and political transnationalisms. Its case studies explore the changing political concept of Chineseness by examining performative, body-oriented video and eco-feminist works. -- .
