Contemporary Art in Shanghai：Conversations with Seven Chinese Artists

English

2011

28.8cm x 20.7cm

Pages：96

Blue Kingfisher Limited

ISBN：978-988-15063-7-5

Author：Pual Gladston

During the last three decades contemporary Chinese art has become increasingly prominent on the international stage. However, despite its growing international profile, relatively little attention has been paid to the specific social, political and cultural circumstances in relation to which contemporary Chinese art has been produced and received inside the People's Republic of China, particularly with regard to regional and localized contexts outside the Chinese capital Beijing. This book goes some way to addressing that relative lack of attention by presenting a series of in-depth conversations with seven contemporary Chinese artists, all of whom live and work in or close to the city of Shanghai. As the conversations presented here and their accompanying images show, while contemporary art in and around Shanghai conforms to many of the established conventions of a now internationalized contemporary art world, it is also informed by strongly held feelings of national and local cultural identity as well as an acute localized awareness of the changing circumstances that have taken place both within and outside the People's Republic of China as part of globalization. Included here are conversations with the artists Yu Youhan, Liang Shaoji, Ding Yi, Yang Fudong, Song Tao, Ji Weiyu and Zhang Ding.

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