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Author Welland, Sasha Su-Ling, 1969- author.

Title Experimental Beijing : gender and globalization in Chinese contemporary art / Sasha Su-Ling Welland
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 337 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chinese contemporary art in the expanded field -- Art worldings -- Xianfeng Beijing -- Showcase Beijing -- Zones of encounter -- The besieged city -- The hinterlands of feminist art -- Feminist sightlines -- Red detachment -- Opening the Great Wall -- Camouflaged histories -- Recursive worldly fables
Summary "During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression found themselves being courted to advance China's international image. In Experimental Beijing Sasha Su-Ling Welland examines the interlocking power dynamics in this transformational moment and rapid rise of Chinese contemporary art into a global phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and experience as a videographer and curator, Welland analyzes encounters between artists, curators, officials, and urban planners as they negotiated the social role of art and built new cultural institutions. Focusing on the contradictions and exclusions that emerged, Welland traces the complex gender politics involved and shows that feminist forms of art practice hold the potential to reshape consciousness, produce a non-normative history of Chinese contemporary art, and imagine other more just worlds."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Art, Chinese -- 21st century.
Art, Modern -- 21st century.
Artists -- China -- Beijing -- 21st century
Art -- China -- Beijing
Globalization in art.
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- Asian.
Art
Art, Chinese
Art, Modern
Artists
Globalization in art
China -- Beijing
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018000299
ISBN 9780822372479
0822372479