Life and dreams : contemporary Chinese photography and media art
Title:
Life and dreams : contemporary Chinese photography and media art
Author:
Phillips, Christopher (Christopher Joel), 1950- editor, contribuor.
ISBN:
9783958294905
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
384 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
General Note:
| Catalog of an exhibition held at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany, May 13-November 18, 2018--colophon. |
Contents:
Christopher Phillips, Wu Hung, and Artur Walher: A Conversation -- Life and Dreams / Plates -- Ruins as Autobiography / New Framework / 'New Photo' and Its Historical Conditions / Enlightenment through a dark lens / One and Thirty / From the Illusory to the Political / A History of Erasure / A Spatial Film / A Conversation between Yang Fudong and Wu Hung -- Media in No Man's Land / Notes on 'New Media'
Abstract:
"Since the early 1990s, photography and media art have rapidly come to occupy significant places in Chinese contemporary art. 'Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art' shows the widespread adoption of photography, video, and digital imaging by successive generations of Chinese artists, as seen in a range of visually inventive and emotionally charged works. Many of them reflect the artists' immediate responses to the unprecedented changes that have swept through China in recent decades, transforming not just the urban landscape, but also key aspects of social relations and everyday life. Some of the most recent media works employ elaborately imaginative and fantasy-driven means to suggest where those changes may ultimately lead the country and its inhabitants." --publisher's description, page [2] of dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365).
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