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The allure of matter : materiality across Chinese art
Title:
The allure of matter : materiality across Chinese art
Author:
Cacchione, Orianna, editor.
ISBN:
9780935573640
Publication Information:
Chicago : Published by the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia and Smart Museum of Art, c2021.
Physical Description:
327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
General Note:
"This publication was produced ... in conjunction with the 'Art and Materiality' symposium, organized by the Smart Museum of Art and the Center for the Art of East Asia, the University of Chicago, February 6-8, 2020. The symposium was held on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, curated by Wu Heng with Orianna Cacchione."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Allure of Matter: Materiality across Chinese Art / PREMODERN CHINESE -- Art Materiality of Buddhist Icons in Early Medieval China / Luminescent Visions: Transparency and Transformation in Medieval China / Gold-Sprinkled: Chinese Paper and Persian Book Arts during the Fifteenth Century / To Have Temperature: Material and Metamorphosis in Nineteenth-Century China / Burning Big Dharma Boats: Paper as an Efficacious Medium / CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART TO ATTACK AND ABANDON REPRESENTATION -- Huang Yong Ping's Redefinition of Materials and Modern Art / The Fleeting Eternity of Chaos: Materials and Process in the Art of Cai-Guo Qiang / The Contingent Life of the Artwork: Conserving the Works of Gu Dexin / Immaterial Materiality: Song Dong's Multimedia Works with Water, Photography, and Video / The Fugitive Luxury of Porcelain in Contemporary Chinese Art
Abstract:
Since the inventions of porcelain and gunpowder, Chinese artists have experimented with unconventional artistic materials and used conventional materials in unorthodox ways. This groundbreaking volume is the first publication to expound the trans-historical importance of materiality in Chinese art by bringing together essays from leading scholars, curators, and conservators. Essayists Anne Feng, Yuhang Li, Wei-Cheng Lin, Catherine Stuer, and Yusen Yu examine how materials including lacquer, crystal, paper, and gold stimulated advances in premodern Chinese art. Alex Burchmore, Orianna Cacchione, Nancy P. Lin, Sara Moy, and Rachel Rivenc analyze several instances of material experimentation in contemporary Chinese art in essays that consider materials as varied as gunpowder, plastic, and water.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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