China's Avant-Garde, 1978-2018

ISBN-13: 9780367343576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Daria Berg; Giorgio Strafella

Opis

This book examines how China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular culture, creatively appropriating artistic and literary languages from global cultures to reflect on reform-era China’s transformation and the Maoist heritage.

Spis treści

Introduction: The art of transculturality Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella Part I: The Politics of Transculturality 1. Interrogating transculturality: from avant-garde literature to street art Andrea　Riemenschnitter 2. "Words divide, images connect": the politics of language and the language of politics in Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground Wenny Teo Part II: Collecting the Art of Transculturality 3. How people collect contemporary art: my typology of collecting styles Uli Sigg 4. Confusionism Uli Sigg Part III: The Topography of Transculturality 5. Transculturality in Hong Kong artist Annie Wan’s conceptual ceramic art Silvia Fok 6. Tibetan stories with transcultural perspectives and experimental styles: Chinese avant-garde fiction as example Xi Liu 7. Burning words: Deng Dafei’s Dark Utopia 2 Cosima Bruno Part IV: The Frontiers of Transculturality 8. Avant-garde ‘Boys Love’: female fantasy and the new queer discourse in China Xi Tian 9. Avant-garde women’s poetry from China: Zhai Yongming and the poetry journal Wings Justyna Jaguścik 10. Stealing the art of pain: Body Art and Zhao Yue’s Lattice Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg