Negotiating Difference

Chinese contemporary Art in the Global Context

John Clark, Juliane Noth, Birgit Hopfener, Brianne Cohen, Silke von Berswordt, Wang Ching-ling, Doris Ha-lin Sung, Adele Tan, Zheng Bo, Beatrice Leanza, Thomas Berghuis, Peggy Wang, Pauline Yao, Paul Gladston, Joe Martin Hill, Lee Ambrozy, Wenny Teo, Franziska Koch, Andreas Schmid, Davide Quadrio, Birgit Hopfener, Juliane Noth, Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Franziska Koch

• Publisher: VDG Weimar
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783897397170
• eBook ISBN: 9783958994607
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

Contemporary Chinese art is still a young field now being opened up to critical academic research. Negotiating Difference is a pioneering collection of articles which engage with contemporary Chinese art in a global context. The contributions collectively address the urgent methodological question of how to describe, contextualize and theorize artworks and artistic processes in and beyond the People's Republic of China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. The studies break new ground as they chalk out the transcultural entanglements of which art and its practices partake and which they in turn reconfigure.The book features 20 essays written by a select group of international junior and senior scholars engaged in ambitious and methodologically innovative research on contemporary Chinese art. Their multi-faceted, in part interdisciplinary approaches are complemented by four contributions by distinguished practitioners in the field, who - as art curators and critics - are located in China and explore key developments within Chinese art and the changing art scene of the last three decades.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Imprint
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Reconfiguring Modernities in China
• Questioning Representations of Chineseness by Inhabiting Events of Cultural Difference
• Re-envisioning Chinese Landscape Painting
• Concepts of Body and Gender
• Strategies of (Dis-)Engagement
• The Production of Meaning and Market
• Agency in Spaces of Production and Presentation
• Afterword
• Appendix
• Color plates