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Children of Marx and Coca-Cola
副标题: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
ISBN: 9780824833367
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
出版年: 2009-11
页数: 312
定价: USD 47.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
"Children of Marx and Coca-Cola" affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author's experience in Beijing and New York - global cities with extensive access to an emergent transnational Chinese visual culture - this work situates selected artworks and films in the context of Chinese nationalism and post-socialism and against the background of the capitalist globalization that has so radically affected contemporary China. It juxtaposes and compares avant-garde artists and independent filmmakers from a number of intertwined perspectives, particularly in their shared avant-garde postures and perceptions. Xiaoping Lin provides illuminating close readings of a variety of visual texts and artistic practices, including installation, performance, painting, photography, video, and film. Throughout he sustains a theoretical discussion of representative artworks and films and succeeds in delineating a variegated postsocialist cultural landscape saturated by market forces, confused values, and lost faith. This refreshing approach is due to Lin's ability to tackle both Chinese art and cinema rigorously within a shared discursive space. He, for example, aptly conceptualizes a central thematic concern in both genres as 'postsocialist trauma' aggravated by capitalist globalization. By thus focusing exclusively on the two parallel and often intersecting movements or phenomena in the visual arts, his work brings about a fruitful dialogue between the narrow field of traditional art history and visual studies more generally.
作者简介
Xiaoping Lin, who received his doctorate in art history from Yale University, has published extensively on contemporary Chinese art and cinema in scholarly journals such as Third Text, Leonardo, and ArtAsiaPacific. He teaches in the Department of Art, Queens College, the City University of New York.
目录
Contents
Acknowledgements | ix
Introduction: Reading Chinese Avant-garde Art and
Independent Cinema in Context | 1
Part 1 Re-creating Urban Space in Avant-garde Art
1. Discourse and Displacement: Contemplating Beijing's
Urban Landscape | 33
2.Beijing: Yin Xiuzhen's The Ruined City | 57
3.Globalism or Nationalism? Cai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan,
and Xu Bing in New York | 72
Part 2 China's Lost Youth through the Lens of Independent Cinema
4. New Chinese Cinema of the "Sixth Generation":
A Distant Cry of Forsaken Children | 91
5.Behind Chinese Walls: The Uncanny Power of Matriarchy
in Wang Chao's Anyang Orphan | 115
6.The Imagery of Postsocialist Trauma in Peacock, Shanghai
Dreams, and Stolen Life | 129
Part 3 In Quest of Meaning in a Spiritual Void: Film and Video
7. Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Trilogy: A Journey across the Ruins
of Post-Mao China | 147
8.The Video Works of Yang Fudong: An Ultimate Escape
from a Global Nightmare | 165
9. Ning Hao's Incense: A Curious Tale of Earthly Buddhism | 186
Postlude: Chinese Artists and Filmmakers at the Beginning
of a New Century | 205
Notes | 237
Chinese Glossary | 287
Filmography | 291
Bibliography | 293
Index | 307
