MCLC: materials on contemporary Chinese art (1,2)

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kevin lawrence <klawrence at chinainstitute.org>
Subject: materials on contemporary Chinese art (1)
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Two good online resources we at China Institute often recommend to
educators interested in contemporary Chinese art are:

1. Asia Art Archive (http://www.aaa.org.hk/home.aspx)

2. for a more general search of Asian Art related websites, Columbia
University's Online Museum Resources on Asian Art
(OMuRAAhttp://www.aaa.org.hk/home.aspx). You can then search by time
period and region for your particular interest.

Of course I realize there are many more valuable resources on contemporary
Chinese art and we are always eager to learn about exceptional resources,
so please do share what resources people have developed and recommend with
the entire e-list. 

Best regards,
Kevin Lawrence

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: materials on contemporary Chinese art (2)

I agree with Kevin about the Asia Art Archive. What would be most useful
to Andrew is their online project Materials of the Future: Documenting
Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990.

http://www.china1980s.org/en/Default.aspx

Asia Art Archive has also produced a documentary film called "From
Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s."

http://www.china1980s.org/en/canton_document.aspx

A reminder, too, that MCLC Resource Center has a Visual Arts bibliography
that might be helpful:

http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/ART.htm

Kirk 

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From: chang tan <tanchang66 at hotmail.com>
Subject: materials on contemporary Chinese art (3)

Wu Hung's numerous writings on contemporary Chinese art, starting from
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China (2000) and Reinterpretation: A Decade
of Experimental Art in China (1990-2000), are certainly among the best in
the field. Hou Hanru, Gao Minglu and Lv Peng （呂澎）also write extensively on
the subject, including exhibition catalogs and historical accounts.

As for Cultural Revolution art, the best books are Julia Andrews, Painters
and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949-1976 (1995) and Ellen
J. Laing, The Winking Owl: Art in the Republic of China (1989). Jiehong
Jiang's Burden or Legacy: From the Chinese Cultural Revolution to
Contemporary Art (2007) surveys the connections between pre and post-1976
art. 

Wu Wenguang's Bumming in Beijing (1990) and Jia Zhangke's Dong (2006)
document the lives and works of contemporary artists. Many documentaries
have been made for individual! artists. Cai Guoqiang and Cao Fei, for
example, are featured in the Art 21 series from the PBS.

http://www.china1980s.org/en/about.aspx is a fine site for 1980's art. The
Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, which sponsors the site, does a great job
collecting, cataloging and digitizing research materials on contemporary
Chinese art. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, based in Taipei,
has more up-to-date interviews, criticisms, scholar essays, etc.

This is just a fraction of what's going on in the field, but hope it
helps. 

Best,
Chang Tan