Approaching Autonomy: Post-socialist Conceptualism in Chinese Art

Yu-Chieh Li (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004537095 (ISBN)

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Based on understudied archival materials and qualitative research, this social and aesthetic study explored dehumanization and the issue of autonomy in the conceptual practices of Post-Mao China.

This book explores works by key artists who shaped conceptualism in post-Mao China. Drawing from understudied archival materials and qualitative research, it analyzes artistic struggles for autonomy, re-evaluating Robert Rauschenberg’s 1985 exhibition in Beijing and Chinese artists’ exploration of appropriation, affect, dehumanization, and collective practice since the 1980s. A continuous development can be found in the politics and aesthetics of post-socialism, which has struggled to define its space for expression, from the 1980s until today.

Yu-Chieh Li, Ph.D. (2018), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has taught at Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and the University of New South Wales (Sydney), and held research positions at Tate Research Centre: Asia (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). Li’s research engages with the aesthetics of conceptual and performance art in Asia and post-colonial art historiography. Her papers have appeared in Third Text, World Art, and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, with an edited volume, Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles, published by Routledge (co-edited with Midori Yamamura).

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-13	9789004537095 / 9789004537095
Zustand	Neuware