Approaching Autonomy: Post-Socialist Conceptualism in Chinese Art

by Yu-Chieh Li

Overview

This book explores works by key artists who shaped conceptualism in post-Mao China. Drawing from understudied archival materials and qualitative research, it analyzes artistic struggles for autonomy, re-evaluating Robert Rauschenberg’s 1985 exhibition in Beijing and Chinese artists’ exploration of appropriation, affect, dehumanization, and collective practice since the 1980s. A continuous development can be found in the politics and aesthetics of post-socialism, which has struggled to define its space for expression, from the 1980s until today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004537095
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/15/2024
Series:	Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Yu-Chieh Li, Ph.D. (2018), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has held research positions at University of New South Wales (Sydney), Tate Research Centre: Asia (London), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). Li’s research engages with aesthetics of conceptual and performance art in Asia and postcolonial art historiography. Her papers have appeared in Third Text, World Art, and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, with an edited volume, Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles, published by Routledge (co-edited with Midori Yamamura).