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Informationen zum Autor Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. His many books include Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, and (with Christopher Phillips) Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. He has curated many international exhibitions of Chinese art.Peggy Wang is Assistant Professor of Art History at Denison University. Klappentext Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. His many books include Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, and (with Christopher Phillips) Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. He has curated many international exhibitions of Chinese art.Peggy Wang is Assistant Professor of Art History at Denison University. Zusammenfassung An anthology of key primary texts reflecting the liveliness and creativity of avant-garde Chinese art in the post-Mao era; the documents are translated into English and arranged chronologically. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Contemporary Art as Domestic Movement, 1976–89 I. The Beginning of Contemporary Art: 1979–84 Introduction Unofficial Art Groups and Exhibitions Preface to the First Nature, Society, and Man Exhibition (Ziran, shehui, ren) (1979) / Wang Zhiping Preface to the First Stars Art Exhibition (Xingxing meizhan) (1979) / Huang Rui A Letter to the People (1979) / Xu Wenli, Liu Qing, et al About the Stars Art Exhibition (1980) / Li Xianting A Debate on "Formal Beauty" and Other Issues Formalist Aesthetics in Painting (1979) / Wu Guanzhong Emotion Individuality, Formal Aesthetics (1979) / Liu Shaohui New Directions in Realist Painting Scar Art Some Thoughts on Creating the Picture-Story Book Maple (Feng) (1980) / Chen Yiming, Liu Yulian, and Li Bin Man's Rational Meditation: A Brief Discussion of Cheng Conglin's Thematic Oil Paintings (1970s/1994) / Deng Pingxiang Native Soil Art A Letter from the Artist of Father (Fuqin) (1981) / Lui Zhongli My Seven Paintings (1981) / Chen Danqing Melancholy Youth and "Contemplative Painting" Expecting Her to Walk on the Main Road (1981) / Wang Chuan "Contemplative Painting" in China and Andrew Wyeth (1985) / Ruan Xudong II. The Arrival of an Avant-Garde Movement: 1985–86 Political and Intellectual Contexts Enlightenment of a New Era: On In the New Era (Zai xinshidai) (1985) / Zhang Qun and Meng Luding Pioneers of Contemporary Chinese Art—A Critique of the Progressive Young Chinese Artists Exhibition (1985) / Zhao Jinghaun Beijing Theorists' Reaction to the Art of Robert Rauschenberg (1985) / Zhu Ye Foreword to Fine Arts in China (1985) Appendix. A Nationwide Forum and Model: Art Magazines and Symposia (2003) / Martina Koppel-Yang '85 Art New Wave General Discussions The '85 Art Movement (1986) / Gao Minglu The Significance is Not the Art (1986) / Li Jiatun A Summary of Evaluations of the '85 Arts Movement (1986) / Gao Minglu Appendix. The Landscape of China's Modern Art Movment (1991) / Tong Dian Writings by Members of Selected Art Groups We—Participants of the "'85 Art Movement" (1986) / Wang Guangyi An Explanation of the Northern Art Group (1987) / Shu Qun On New Space and the Pond Society (1987) / Shi Jiu New Figurative: Manifestation and Transcendence in Figurative Patterns of Life (1987) / Mao Xuhui Red Brigade Precept (1987) / Ding Fang Statement on Burning (1986) / Huang Yong Ping Introduc...
