Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China

By Karen Smith.

Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China

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In the early 1990s, the idea of contemporary art in China simply did not compute to a foreign audience. But in 1993, ten contemporary Chinese artists debuted at the 48th Venice Biennale. They were immediately hailed as progenitors of a Chinese „avant-garde." Their brightly colored, Pop Art-inspired paintings played with socialist motifs, parodied Mao, and gave a visual expression to the feelings of disaffected Chinese youth. They were everything western audiences expected of contemporary art from the People‘s Republic of China. But a number of critics were rather guarded in...

ISBN(s)

3039390368, 9783039390366

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