Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China - Voices From Below

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China's top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations.

List of contents

Introduction: Voices from Below: the Potential of Art Activism Part I: Social Criticism through Art 1. Art Criticism, Exhibition, and Citizen Politics: Wang Nanming and the Theory of Critical Art 2. Waste, Pollution, and Grassroots Environment Activism: Wang Jiuliang and the Art of Documenting Part II: Place Construction with Art 3. Art, Urban Renewal / Cultural Heritage Conservation, and Grassroots Community Building: Zheng Dazhen and the Maker of Lifestyle 4. Art and Place-Making for the People: Zuo Jing and the Trilogy of Rural Reconstruction Part III: Personal Development in Art 5. From Representation to Collaboration: Wen Fang and Her Poverty Alleviation Art 6. The Nurture Effect: Hu Jianqiang, Wang Jun and Art for Children Conclusion: Art and the Right to Bottom-up Social Changes

About the author

Meiqin Wang is Professor in the Department of Art at California State University, Northridge, USA.

Summary

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations.

Product details

• Authors: Meiqin Wang, Meiqin (California State University Northrid Wang, Wang Meiqin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032093444
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209344-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; China, Human Rights, ART / History / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Asian / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of Art, Social issues & processes, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Social and ethical issues, Human rights, civil rights