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Writing on the wall : Chinese new realism and avant-garde in the eighties and nineties / compiled by Cees Hendrikse ; with texts by Thomas Berghuis ... [et al.].

Title
Writing on the wall : Chinese new realism and avant-garde in the eighties and nineties / compiled by Cees Hendrikse ; with texts by Thomas Berghuis ... [et al.].
Publication
[Groningen] : Groninger Museum ; London : Art Data [distributor], c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Hendrikse, Cees
  • Berghuis, Thomas J.
  • Groninger Museum
Description
151 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.
Summary
"Writing on the Wall provides a fascinating overview of the work of the most important Chinese modern artists from the 1980s and the 1990s. Internationally renowned authors Thomas Berghuis, Francesca Dal Lago and Eduardo Welsh shed light on the effects of these different movements in this crucial period in the development of Chinese modern art."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Chen, Danqing, 1953-
  • Gao, Xiaohua, 1955-
  • Xu, Bing, 1955-
  • Huang, Rui, 1952-
  • Liu, Wei, 1965-
  • Zhang, Xiaogang, 1958-
  • Zhang, Dali, 1963-
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1980-2000
  • Art, Chinese > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Realism in art > China > Exhibitions
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > China > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
Note
  • "This publication accompanied the exhibition 'Writing on the wall : Chinese new realism and avant-garde in the eighties and nineties' at the Groninger Museum held from 23 March to 26 October 2008."--colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A word from the curator / Cees Hendrikse -- Message and process : beauty, knowledge and representation in 1980s art / Eduardo Welsh -- The voice of the 'superfluous people' : painting in China in the late 1980s and early 1990s / Francesca Dal Lago -- Catalogue. Chen Danqing ; Gao Xiaohua ; Luo Zhongli ; Chen Yanning ; Ai Xuan ; He Duoling & Ai Xuan ; Wang Keping ; Ma Desheng ; Huang Rui ; Xu BIng ; Gu Wenda ; Geng Jianyi ; Zhang Peili ; Wang Guangyi ; Yu Youhan ; Wang Jinsong ; Fang Lijun ; Liu Wei ; Yue Minjun ; Yang Shaobin ; Zeng Fanzhi ; Liu Xiaodong ; Zhang Xiaogang ; Zhang Dali ; Ding Yi -- The 'art' of Chinese performance art / Thomas J. Berghuis -- Wen Pulin.
ISBN
  • 9789056625429 (pbk.)
  • 905662542X (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 216939361
  • SCSB-9882262
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library