AVATARS AND ANTIHEROES. A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS
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- EAN: 9784770030719
- ISBN: 978-4-7700-3071-9
- Editorial: KODANSHA
- Año de la edición: 2008
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 20 X 26 cm.
- Páginas: 174
- Materias:
china: arquitectura y arte
escultura
nuevas vanguardias, técnicas mixtas, nuevos medios
fotografía
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Chinese contemporary art is currently enjoying a worldwide boom, fetching record-breaking prices at auction houses around the globe. The country's rapid transition from Communism to consumerism, and the dizzying changes brought about by urbanization, globalization and new technologies have created a fascinating explosion of art overwhelmingly concerned with the search for self-identity in a society that, from Confucius to Mao, has traditionally disregarded individualism for the collective good. Avatars and Antiheroes reflects the schizophrenic undercurrents of a nation in continuous fast-forward. From the Cynical Realism and Political Pop movements associated with the post-Tiananmen generation of artists such as Yue Minjun, whose grinning representations of himself as antihero seem to mock the revolutionary heroes of old, to the pop-culture generation spearheaded by Cao Fei, whose digital avatars live in a world without borders, this book showcases the work of the most important contemporary artists to emerge from China in recent years.