Research Catalog

Title

Displacement : the Three Gorges Dam and contemporary Chinese art / Wu Hung ; with Jason McGrath and Stephanie Smith ; [translations by Peggy Wang and Xiao Tie].

Author

Wu Hung, 1945-

Publication

Chicago, IL : Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, c2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90715603
• McGrath, Jason, 1966-
• Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002004016
• Smith, Stephanie, 1970-

Description

159 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Subject

• Art > Social aspects > China > Exhibitions
• Art, Chinese > 21st century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• San Xia shui li shu niu (China) > Exhibitions

Note

• Translators from t.p. verso.
• Published to accompany the traveling exhibition Displacement: the Three Gorges Dam and contemporary Chinese art, organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, October 2, 2008-January 25, 2009, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; March 25-July 18, 2010, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Anthony Hirschel -- Internalizing displacement : the Three Gorges Dam and contemporary Chinese art / Wu Hung -- The cinema of displacement : the Three Gorges Dam in feature film and video / Jason McGrath -- Mist and water : the Three Gorges Dam and contemporary art in the West / Stephanie Smith -- Chen Qiulin -- Yun-Fei Ji -- Liu Xiaodong -- Zhuang Hui -- Contributors -- Checklist of the exhibition.

ISBN

• 0935573461
• 9780935573466

LCCN

2008024807

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library