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Avatars and Antiheroes
A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists
Claudia Albertini
Hardcover 176 pages
190 x 250mm
ISBN : 978-4-7700-3071-9 / 4-7700-3071-1
Publish : 1 Jun, 2008
Price : $34.59 |
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[ About the Book ]
Avatars and Antiheroes
Showcases forty of the latest and most relevant contemporary artists from China. Featuring stunning full-color plates of the work of leading painters, photographers, sculptors, performance artists, video artists, and even a fireworks artist, this book gives a fascinating insight into modern Chinese society and its vibrant contemporary art scene.
Chinese contemporary art is currently enjoying a worldwide boom, fetching record-breaking prices at auction houses around the globe. China's rapid transition from communism to consumerism, and the dizzying changes brought by urbanization, globalization, and new technologies have created a fascinating explosion of contemporary art overwhelmingly concerned with the search for self-identity in a society that, from Confucius to Mao, has traditionally disregarded individualism for the collective good.
Avatars and Antiheroes reflects the schizophrenic undercurrents of a nation in continuous fast-forward. From the Cynical Realism and Political Pop movements associated with the post-Tiananmen generation of artists such as Yue Minjun whose grinning representations of himself as antihero seem to mock the revolutionary heroes of old, to the pop-culture generation spearheaded by Cao Fei whose digital avatars live in a world without borders, this book showcases the work of the most important contemporary artists to emerge from China in recent years.
About the Author
Claudia Albertini is an Italian sinologist with an MA in Advanced Chinese Studies from the University of Sheffield. She works for Marella Gallery, a leading Italian art gallery in Beijing's 798 Art District and has written on Chinese art for NYArts Magazine. Avatars and Antiheroes is her first book.
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