| Description |
1 online resource (x, 409 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index. |
| Contents |
Avant-garde and revolution in twentieth-century Chinese art -- Academicism and the amateur avant-garde in the post-cultural revolution period (1979-1984) -- The map of the '85 avant-garde movement -- The "China/avant-garde" exhibition of 1989 -- Metaphysical modernity: rationalist painting and current of life painting -- Chan meets Dada: merging destruction and tradition in the avant-garde mentality -- Metaphor over meaning: language art and gray humor -- Kitsch and complicity: the case of political pop and cynical realism -- Apartment art -- Maximalism. |
| Summary |
A groundbreaking book that describes a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and a modernity that unifies art, politics, and social life. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Chinese. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Themes, motives. |
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Art and society -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and society. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gao, Minglu. Total modernity and the avant-garde in twentieth-century Chinese art. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; London : in association with China Art Foundation, ©2011 9780262014946 (DLC) 2010018967 (OCoLC)612963182 |
| ISBN |
9780262295857 (electronic book) |
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0262295857 (electronic book) |
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1283258617 |
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9781283258616 |
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9780262014946 |
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0262014947 |
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