Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What Is the World in Contemporary Chinese Art?
i was surprised to find out that a wangwangis paintings are done, in fact, in industrial paint ana oil. And i have to say that also, your experience of doing field work and interacting with the artist, it comes through very visibly in the book. Your descriptions of how the art came to be are so precise, much more so than some of the other descriptions of this art that i have encountered. So what does this mean for chinese art and artists and their self understanding? Yes, so the idea of the world,. ah, really was something that we have to pay attention to, how artists themselves grew up thinking it, and then when they encounter experiences abroad, what
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