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Life and dreams : contemporary Chinese photography and media art

Title
Life and dreams : contemporary Chinese photography and media art / edited by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung ; featuring works by Ai Weiwei [and forty-three others] ; essays by Christopher Phillips [and eight others] ; conversations by Christopher Phillips [and three others].
Publication
Göttingen, Germany : Steidl ; New York, New York : The Walther Collection, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Phillips, Christopher (Christopher Joel), 1950-
  • Wu Hung, 1945-
  • Rongrong, 1968-
  • Smith, Karen (Art historian)
  • Tung, Stephanie H.
  • Poborsa, James D.
  • Leong, Sze Tsung
  • Wang, Xin
  • Yang, Lu
  • Ai, Weiwei
  • Steidl Verlag, publisher, printer
  • Walther Collection, publisher, host institution
Description
384 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm
Summary
"Since the early 1990s, photography and media art have rapidly come to occupy significant places in Chinese contemporary art. 'Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art' shows the widespread adoption of photography, video, and digital imaging by successive generations of Chinese artists, as seen in a range of visually inventive and emotionally charged works. Many of them reflect the artists' immediate responses to the unprecedented changes that have swept through China in recent decades, transforming not just the urban landscape, but also key aspects of social relations and everyday life. Some of the most recent media works employ elaborately imaginative and fantasy-driven means to suggest where those changes may ultimately lead the country and its inhabitants."
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs.
  • Essays.
  • Photobooks.
  • Interviews.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany, May 13-November 18, 2018.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365).
Contents
Christopher Phillips, Wu Hung, and Artur Walher: A Conversation -- Life and Dreams / Christopher Phillips -- Plates -- Ruins as Autobiography / Wu Hung -- New Framework / Rong Rong -- 'New Photo' and Its Historical Conditions / Wu Hung -- Enlightenment through a dark lens / Karen Smith -- One and Thirty / Stephanie H. Tung -- From the Illusory to the Political / James D. Poborsa -- A History of Erasure / Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong -- A Spatial Film / Christopher Phillips -- A Conversation between Yang Fudong and Wu Hung -- Media in No Man's Land / Xin Wang -- Notes on 'New Media' / Lu Yang.
Call Number
JQF 18-1729
ISBN
  • 9783958294905
  • 3958294901
OCLC
1050448670
Title
Life and dreams : contemporary Chinese photography and media art / edited by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung ; featuring works by Ai Weiwei [and forty-three others] ; essays by Christopher Phillips [and eight others] ; conversations by Christopher Phillips [and three others].
Publisher
Göttingen, Germany : Steidl ; New York, New York : The Walther Collection, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365).
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Place of Publication
Germany Lower Saxony Göttingen.
United States New York (State) New York.
Added Author
Phillips, Christopher (Christopher Joel), 1950- editor, contribuor.
Wu Hung, 1945- editor, contributor.
Rongrong, 1968- contributor.
Smith, Karen (Art historian), contributor.
Tung, Stephanie H., contributor.
Poborsa, James D., contributor.
Leong, Sze Tsung, contributor.
Wang, Xin, contributor.
Yang, Lu, contributor.
Ai, Weiwei. Works. Selections.
Steidl Verlag, publisher, printer.
Walther Collection, publisher, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 18-1729
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