Stepping out! : female identities in Chinese contemporary art
Since the beginning of China's economic boom in the late 1980s and its ever-increasing influence on globalized society, the country's burgeoning contemporary art scene has attracted great attention around the world. However, despite the Chinese art market's emergence as a highly proli...
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| Summary: | Since the beginning of China's economic boom in the late 1980s and its ever-increasing influence on globalized society, the country's burgeoning contemporary art scene has attracted great attention around the world. However, despite the Chinese art market's emergence as a highly prolific industry and a growing international recognition of contemporary art from China, there is a remarkable lack of Chinese women artists represented in (inter-)national exhibitions and publications. Stepping Out! is the first comprehensive publication in 25 years to present a broadly representative selection of the work of contemporary Chinese female artists, including pioneering as well as emerging artists thus far little-known abroad. Through an enormous wealth of perspectives, the artists reveal their personal and social fears, contradictions, and hopes in the tense field occupied by powerful tradition, and shed light upon the search for identity both as women and as artists within a rapidly changing Chinese society. |
| Item Description: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway, May 14-October 16, 2022; Kunstforeningen, Denmark, December 1, 2022-March 12, 2023; and at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Germany, April 1-July 2, 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
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Berlin :
Hatje Cantz Verlag,
2022.
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| ISBN: | 9783775752336 3775752331 9783775752343 377575234X |
Table of Contents:
- Stepping out! / Nils Ohlsen
- In or not in their spaces : the paths and condemnation of contemporary Chinese women artists / Feng Boyi
- Mapping women artists in Chinese contemporary art : from the 1970s to today / Monica Merlin
- "Space invaders" : discourses in contemporary Chinese art / Luise Guest
- Expression through bodies : women's storytelling and documentary theater / Shu-chin Tsui
- Walking on the Great Wall / Christina Penetsdorfer
- A little girl from a small town / Liu Xi.