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Title

Art & place : essays on art from a Hong Kong perspective / David Clarke.

Author

Clarke, David J. (David James), 1954-

Publication

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c1996.

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Description

xii, 296 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

Art and Place brings together a series of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last ten year, with the intention of offering a personal chronicle of the Hong Kong art world during a time of great change. Many of the essays concern themselves with the work of local artists, but Western and Chinese artists whose works have been exhibited in Hong Kong during this period are also discussed. In addition to a consideration of particular artists and works of art, there are also essays which engage with debates that have been taking place in Hong Kong concerning curatorship and various arts policy issues.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Art and place

Subject

• Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum
• 1900-1999
• Art, Chinese > Hong Kong
• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Art, Chinese > 20th century
• Art, Chinese
• Art, Chinese > Hong Kong > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Illustrations -- Introduction -- Sect. I. Art and Its Contexts -- 1. Site-Specificity in Recent Art -- 2. Monologues Without Words: Museum Displays as Art Historical Narratives -- 3. Museums, Artists, Audiences -- 4. Private Art in a Public Place -- 5. 'In Search of Art': Looking Back With the Future in Mind -- 6. Engaging Tradition -- 7. Photography, Art, Life -- Sect. II. Arts Policy Issues -- 8. The Culture of Democracy: Looking at Art in Hong Kong -- 9. The Arts Policy Review Report: Some Responses -- 10. Submission to the Legislative Council's Panel on Recreation and Culture Concerning the Proposed Arts Development Council -- 11. Research and the Nurturing of Public Understanding of Art -- Sect. III. Hong Kong Art -- 12. Between East and West: Negotiations With Tradition and Modernity in Hong Kong Art -- 13. The Sculpture of Antonio Mak -- 14. The Art of Yank Wong -- 15. The Art of Chan Chi-ling -- 16. A Sense of Place: Chan Chi-ling and Wong Wo-bik in Conversation With David Clarke -- 17. Innocence and Experience: The Art of Mei Lo -- 18. The Insufficiency of Tradition: Paintings by Fang Zhaoling and Chu Hing-wah -- 19. Photography and Social Reproduction -- 20. Revisions -- 21. Zuni Icosahedron in Context -- Sect. IV. Western Art in a Hong Kong Frame -- 22. Grimm's Fairy Tales: A Series of Etchings by David Hockney -- 23. The Blue Guitar -- 24. Drawing From the Unconscious: The Surrealist Art of Max Ernst -- 25. German Graphics of the 1970s -- 26. Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art -- 27. Hot and Cool: The Art of Robert Rauschenberg -- 28. Rodin and the Fragmented Figure -- 29. The Aesthetic of the Sketch -- 30. National Shows at the 1995 Venice Biennale -- 31. Art and the History of the Body: A Review of 'Identity and Alterity', the Keynote Show of the 1995 Venice Biennale -- Sect. V. Chinese Art: The View From Hong Kong -- 32. Li Tiefu and Western Art -- 33. Exile From Tradition: Chinese and Western Traits in the Art of Lin Fengmian -- 34. Reframing Mao: Aspects of Recent Chinese Art, Popular Culture and Politics -- 35. Foreign Bodies: Chinese Art at the 1995 Venice Biennale -- Plates -- Chinese Names -- Index.

ISBN

9622094155

LCCN

^^^98113533^

OCLC

36633783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library