Breakout : Chinese art outside China / Melissa Chiu

Author(s): Chiu, Melissa

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Main Title
Breakout : Chinese art outside China
Author(s)
Chiu, Melissa
Publisher
Milan : Edizioni Charta, 2006
Collation
243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
24 cm
Summary
Breakout assembles the work of fourteen artists who left China around the time of the 1989 June Fourth Movement at Tiananmen Square.--back cover.
ISBN
9788881586394
Dewey Class
709.51
Contents
Introduction : The two worlds of Chinese art -- The emergence of Chinese contemporary art, 1989-1999 -- Theories of being outside -- Chineseness as international style in the United States -- Discourses of east and west: Chinese artists in France -- The Asianization debate in Australia -- New connections and a return to the homeland.
Language
English
Subject
Art, Chinese -- 20th century
Artists -- China
BRN
9942

Notes

  • Artists: (New York) Zhang Hongtu, Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, Cai Guo-Qiang, Yun-Fei Ji and Zhang Huan, (Paris) Huang Yong Ping, Yang Jiechang, Chen Zhen and Shen Yuan, (Sydney) Guan Wei, Ah Xian, Guo Jian and Fan Dong Wang.

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