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Author Vigneron, Frank, author.

Title Hong Kong soft power : art practices in the special administrative region, 2005-2014 / Frank Vigneron.

Publication Info. Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 390 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents A new art ecosystem and its burgeoning effects -- Sorting the intricacies of a complex art field -- "Native" Chinese art -- Ink art -- Plastician practices -- Relational aesthetics in the expanded field.
Summary In late 2014, the pro-democracy demonstrations that were called the "Umbrella Movement" revealed to the world that Hong Kong was not the money-obsessed society it had often been portrayed as. Hong Kong Soft Power is a description of the complex relationship the artists and activists of this city have had with the country it has been part of since 1997. Trying to understand all the varied forms of art practices possible in the Special Administrative Region by locating them within a relational model, and situating them within the dynamic and changing art ecosystem that has developed over the last decade, Hong Kong Soft Power describes the local art field as a site of struggle where the connections with Chinese Mainland institutions and art practices play a fundamental role. This is not to say that this influence has entirely dominated the local art field, and this book also emphasizes how the artists of the city have engaged in practices ranging from the most personal to the most socially-oriented. Analyzing the works of nearly fifty local art practitioners and a representative range of art institutions, Hong Kong Soft Power is the portrait of a culture going through the trials and tribulations of rapid political and economic changes in both its negative and positive effects
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Subject Art, Chinese -- China -- Hong Kong -- 21st century.
Art, Chinese.
China -- Hong Kong.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Art, Modern -- 21st century.
Art, Modern.
Art and state -- China -- Hong Kong.
Art and state.
East and West in art.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vigneron, Frank. Hong Kong soft power. Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2018] 9789629968045 (OCoLC)957683373
ISBN 9789882377042 (electronic book)
9882377041 (electronic book)
9789629968045
9629968045