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The following exhibition catalogues are available in limited quantities only from Chinese-art.com's on-line bookstore (Chinese-artbooks.com). To order a copy of these important catalogs now, click on any of the pictures below to hyperlink directly to newly designed bookstore, where you can now buy our books online via our secure server. Please visit
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A Selection of Shanghai Art Museum's
collection
A Selection of Shanghai Art Museum's
collection Zhang Dali The most comprehensive book every assembled on this prolific and important graffitist/artist. Many of the artist's graffiti works in the book have been razed along with the old buildings they enclose to make room for new real estate developments. Mathieu Borysevicz provides eloguent comment on the significance of this artist and his works. Highly recommended.
Chen Wenji With intros by Feng Boyi and Pi Li, this catalog provides a comprehensive and un-interrupted look at the artist's works of the last several years. Chen focuses on the skyline of the city in China, particularly its smokestacks and grey, polluted skies. At the same time, he pushes his paintings to the figurative limits of oil on canvas. Chen Wenji is a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Cai Jin Cai Jin gives us blood-red banana plants on canvas, car seats, shoes, bathtubs and on the Courtyard Gallery floors. This book provides a look at the evolution of this important woman artist.
Gao Bo Photo Photographies
Jiangnan - Modern and Contemporary
Art from South of the Yangzi River This catalog for the Jiangnan project in Vancouver includes artwork images, bios and short write-ups on some of the biggest names in Chinese art today: Xu Bing, Huang Yongping, Zhou Tiehai, Geng Jianyi, Ding Yi, Shen Fan, Shi Hui, Chen Haiyan, Chen Zhen, Ken Lum, Chan Yanyin, Hu Jieming, Shi Yong, Yang Zhenzhong, Gu Wenda, Lin Yan and many others. Click here to place special order.
Black Cover Book The first of the seminal series of Red Flag books on China's avant-garde, the 1994 Black Cover compilation includes an interview with Hsieh Tehching, plus Studio and Artworks sections. This issue's Studio section includes a recent work and notes by featured artists, including: Ma Liuming, Wang Gongxin, Ai Weiwei, Zhu Fadong, Song Dong, Xu bing, zhang Huan, Geng Jianyi, Huang yongping, Lin Yilin, Xu Tan, Liang Juhui, Ah Xian, Huang Yan, Liang Shaoji. It also contains early news report on East Village. Limited quantities remaining.
White Cover Book Red Flag Books 1995 White Cover compilation includes
an interview with Ai Weiwei, plus Studio and artworks sections. The
Studio section includes a recent work and notes by featured artists,
including: Ding Yi, Ma Liuming, Wang Jin, Yin Xiuzhen, Qiu Zhijie, Zhang
Huan, Wang Jianwei, Chen Shaoxiong, Song Dong, Qian Weikang, Zhang Peili,
Zhuang Hui, plus representative artworks by 32 other artists active
in 1995. Limited quantities remaining.
Grey Cover Book The Gray Cover compilation published in 1997 was the third and final volume of the Red Flag publications. It contained interviews with Zheng Guogu, Zhu Fadong, Hong Hao, Xu Yihui, Ai Weiwei and Yan Lei. The studio section includes an artwork and notes by the following artists: Wang Jingsong, Ma Yunfei, Yin Xiuzhen, Ai Weiwei, Zhang Lei, Rong Rong, Hong Hao, Zhao Bandi, Lin Tianmiao, Shi Yong, Xu Ruotao, Zhan Wang, Lu Qing, Yan Lei, Zhu MinLiu Xinhua, Liu Jianhua and others. Limited quantities remaining.
Its Me The title of this newly published book is that of an exhibition curated by Leng Lin in 1998. Literally meaning, "Its Me!", the book is a compendium of articles on the state of the avant-garde in China, including interviews with individual artists such as Wang Jin, Zhang Huan, Zhang Dali, Yue Minjun, and monographs of Zhao Bandi, Yang Shaobin and Fang Lijun and lots more. Though the exhibition never opened, its spirit lives in these pages. Highly recommended.
The Traditional Visual Image This exhibition catalog features conceptual photography works of Cang Xin, Jin Feng, Huang Yan and Wang Jingsong. Beautfully printed edition of new works by these important conceptual artists. Highly recommended. Urban Personality and Contemporary
Art Critic Wang Lin has put together a compendium of bios and artworks of over one hundred artists that fit the above book title description. --
Ouh La La
Kitsch This exhibition catalog is a summation of Liao Wen and Li Xianting's work on the Kitsch phenomena in China. -- CHINA NEW-ART
(Book) A record of the works of 23 important Avant-garde artists in China, many of whom never before published in China, Appendix contains 1979-89 short history of Avant-garde art. --
Talking is the Road This book contains interviews with top artists: Ding
Yi, Hong Hao, Wang XingWei, Zhang Huan, Zhang Hai'er, Xu Tan, Zhao Bandi,
Wei Dong and others. -- Chinese
Type Contemporary Art Internationally renowned curator and critic, Hou Hanru, looks "Beyond the Chinese" with articles by leading writers and critics from around the world. Mr Hou will be one of curators for this years Shanghai Biennial. (volume2,
issue5) The father and son critics, Pi Daojian and Pi Li, make Ink on Paper and identity politics the subject of this issue. (volume2,
issue4) Francesca Dal Lago provides in-depth and comprehensive coverage and critique of this year's Venice Biennale. (volume2,
issue3) Zhu Qi asks the question: Do Westerners Really Understand Contemporary Chinese Art? And, provides a perspective, which right or wrong, challenges art world logocentrism.
Ai Weiwei's thirteen years in New York and position as juror for Chinese Contemporary Art Award make for an in-depth look at newly emergin artists that dare to be different. (volume1,
issue5) (volume1,
issue4) (volume1,
issue3) (volume1,
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In his 1993 work, Cycle, (Xunhuan), Wang Jianwei spent a year planting wheat with peasants. At the end of the year, they split the grain and Wang put the grain in his house, occasionally using it for exhibitions. People complained to him that they couldn't see the artwork. "I think if the wheat had come out green people would have said, 'Oh this is a great work', but when you plant wheat, it still just comes out like wheat. This just demonstrates how we see art. We always use our eyes to go look at things. The problem is - what supports your eyes to see this?"continued....... Previous artists ........ |
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Chinese-art.com is proud to have the opportunity to present select chapters from Mr Welsh's dissertation in a monthly serial form. Chapter 5 The Jiang-Zhe Area (03/21/00) The provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu have long been important cultural centres of China. These areas have been a stronghold of "literati" culture. Nanjing was a prominent cultural centre since the Eastern Jin period (316-420) and Hangzhou became the capital of the Southern Song dynasty. Hereafter, although the capital was to move north again, this area has remained a strong cultural and intellectual area whose painting has dominated the history of Chinese art up until the present. The educated scholar elite from these provinces always had a strong representation in government and when excluded from government posts many took solace in painting. This area continued to play an important part in the Twentieth Century. The seat of the Guomindang government was in Nanjing. Nearby Shanghai was a hive of intellectual ferment and communist ideas. The first meetings of the CCP were held in Shanghai and a nearby city called Jiaxing. It was also in Shanghai that Lu Xun held his woodcut printing workshops in the thirties. In terms of art, these areas continued to have strong influence and were home to some of the most important art institutions in China: The Zhejiang Academy of Art (ZAFA) (now renamed the National Academy of Art) and the Nanjing Academy of Art. continued....... New Directions, New Problems (02/29/00) |
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This is a show about the ephemeral and how to exhibit it. Cai Guo-Qiang's first European solo show, has found an appropriate space at the provisional site of the Kunsthalle Wien. For many visitors, Vienna is the epitome of stability. A town where nothing much seems to have changed, where the architecture of the historical centre speaks of 600 years of Habsburg rule, the power of the Catholic church and the patronage of the court nobility. And yet, when Cai Guo-Qiang conceived the exhibition as an event to mark not only the beginning of the new millenium but also the major change in Vienna's cultural landscape that will take place with the opening of the new Museumsquartier currently under construction, very few would have predicted that almost 30% of the Austrian electorate would decide for a much more decisive change. The Y2K scare has gone up in smoke, as it were, but after the general elections, with a conservative-far right coalition in power, it remains to be seen if the "change of eras" foreseen by Cai does not imply an era of repression for avant-garde art in Austria. continued.......
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