Transience
Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century
216 pages
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72 color plates, 46 halftones
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7-1/2 x 11
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© 1999, 2004
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.
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.
"Wu Hung's own background as both a Harvard-trained art historian and graduate of Maoist China's premier art school informs his reading of the recent past in a way that most American readers will find profound and compelling. . . . Our students have found Transience to be a valuable introduction to contemporary Chinese art, especially that of the 1990s. The book is probably the most thoughtfully and coherently organized overview of the subject published in recent years and will have an important life in scholarship quite separate from the excellent exhibition for which it was conceived."--Julia F. Andrews, CAA Reviews
"[Transience] is an important book for this burgeoning field. The key to its significance is its refreshing approach. Instead of examining contemporary Chinese art as a broad phenomenon, [Wu Hung] focuses on artists as individuals working in a common milieu. He thus humanizes the subject, rendering it less exotic yet much richer. Delving deeper into the subject matter, he provides close analyses of individual works of art, further demystifying the field. . . . A well-written and timely book."--Britta Erickson, Art Journal
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