Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What Have I Been Painting?
When he was in europe, he then was able to experience what was happening. He also realized the extent to which the artists that he admired so much were absorbing their own environment. So when he amsterdam, mor when he was in france, isi, oh, i see now why bango painted the way he did. He was drawing from his own environment. And then he thought to himself, what have i been painting? It's not my own environment. It's really drawn from this other thing that now turns out to be fictional. That painful lineage that he thought that he had been a part was cut so deeply. Then he realizes he has to construct one, and
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