Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art (Philosophy of History and Culture, 31) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004187952 ISBN 13: 9789004187955

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

Synopsis

What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. Subversive Strategies paves the way for the rebirth of a Chinese aesthetics adequate to the art whose sheer energy and imaginative power is subverting the ideas through which western and Chinese critics think about art. The first collection of essays by American and Chinese philosophers and art historians, Subversive Strategies begins by showing how the art reflects current crises and is working them out through bodies gendered and political. The essays raise the question of Chinese identity in a global world and note a blurring of the boundary between art and everyday life.

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Mary Bittner Wiseman. M.A. in Philosophy, Harvard University. Ph.D. in Philosophy, Columbia University. Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. Author of The Ecstases of Roland Barthes (Routledge), she has published on aesthetics, ethics, and feminism.

Liu Yuedi Ph.D. in Philosophy. Associate Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Delegate at large of International Association for Aesthetics, Secretary-General of Chinese Society for Aesthetics. Author of The History of Analytic Aesthetics, he has published on culture, aesthetics and art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9004187952
• ISBN 13: 9789004187955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 417
• Editor: Mary Bittner Wiseman, Liu Yuedi