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Total modernity and the avant-garde in twentieth-century Chinese art /

A groundbreaking book that describes a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and a modernity that unifies art, politics, and social life.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gao, Minglu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : London : MIT Press ; in association with China Art Foundation, ©2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Avant-garde and revolution in twentieth-century Chinese art
  • Academicism and the amateur avant-garde in the post-cultural revolution period (1979-1984)
  • The map of the '85 avant-garde movement
  • The "China/avant-garde" exhibition of 1989
  • Metaphysical modernity: rationalist painting and current of life painting
  • Chan meets Dada: merging destruction and tradition in the avant-garde mentality
  • Metaphor over meaning: language art and gray humor
  • Kitsch and complicity: the case of political pop and cynical realism
  • Apartment art
  • Maximalism.