Transience: Chinese Experimental Art At The End Of The Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

Hung, Wu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226360717 ISBN 13 : 9780226360713

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2005

Synopsis

In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" established a historical framework for current artistic production in China. Organized by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the show and its catalog highlighted the diverse responses of twenty-two artists to Chinas recent history and current social transformation.

These detailed essays on the artists and their works are now available in a revised edition of the exhibition catalog. Written by Wu Hung, a leading authority and the curator of the exhibit, Transience explores contemporary Chinese art through the themes of demystification, ruins, and transience, and represents an original perspective in the continuing discussion on Chinese experimental art.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Wu Hung grew up in Beijing and received his BA and MA in art history from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. From 1973 to 1978 he served on the research staff at the Palace Museum, located inside Beijing's Forbidden City.

He came to the United States in 1980 and obtained his Ph. D. in art history and anthropology from Harvard University in 1987. That same year he began to teach art history at Harvard and was promoted to full professor in 1994. He then moved to the University of Chicago, where he now holds the post of Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History. Although best known as a scholar in ancient Chinese art, he has always had an intense interest in contemporary Chinese art and bas contributed significantly to the introduction of this art to the American public. In the mid-eighties he organized a series of exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art at Adams House, Harvard University, which included the American debuts of important artists including Chen Danqing, Luo Zhongli, Mu Xin, Qiu Dcshu, and Zhang Hongtu. He bas published articles on contemporary Chinese art and visual culture in various journals and has contributed to exhibition catalogues such as Inside Out : New Chinese Art (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1998).

Wu Hung's writings have received a number of important awards. The Wu Liang Shrine : The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford, 1989) won the Association for Asian Studies' 1990 Joseph Levenson Prize for the best book in Chinese studies (traditional). Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (Stanford, 1995) was selected by Choke as an Outstanding Academic Publication in 1996. His co-authored book, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (New Haven and London, 1997), received the Haskin Award from the Association of American Publishers in 1998.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226360717
• ISBN 13: 9780226360713
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible