Two Histories of Art: What Arts Represent China?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Preface 7
4. Ink Painting in the Age of New Wave 17
5. The Sound of One Hand: Between Meaning and No-Meaning 29
6. The Essential Meaning of Chinese Calligraphy and Its Loss 45
7. Literati Painting: Reflections Across Discontinuities 59
8. Realism is a Kind of Ideology in China 71
9. The Emperors Have Rotted Long Ago, Only the Fragrance of Nanmu Wood Remains 79
10. People’s ‘Writing’ 87
11. The Dismantling and Re-Construction of Bentu (‘This Land’ or ‘Native Land’): Contemporary Chinese Art in the Post-colonial Context 103
12. Gu Dexin: A Double Take 121
13. Art in Its Regional Political Context: Exhibition and Criticism 131
14. Two Histories of Art: What Arts Represent China? 143
15. Pingyao and Lianzhou: Changes in the Situation of Contemporary Chinese Photography 153
16. Evolution of Conceptual Photography and Its Position in the History of New Art 163
17. How Much Space of Exchange is there on the Internet in Relation to Contemporary Art? 179
18. The Paradox of the Individual and the Collective: 189
19. Can That Be? Why Can’t It Be? 199
20. Art That Has Encountered Changes 211
21. Authors 223