目录
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part One: The Avant-Garde in the Past
1 Avant-Garde and Revolution in Twentieth-Century
Chinese Art 33
2 Academicism and the Amateur Avant-Garde in the
Post-Cultural Revolution Period (1979–1984) 65
Part Two: The ’85 Movement
3 The Map of the ’85 Avant-Garde Movement 101
4 The “China/Avant-Garde” Exhibition of 1989 141
5 Metaphysical Modernity 169
Rationalist Painting and Current of Life Painting
6 Chan Meets Dada 199
Merging Destruction and Tradition in the Avant-Garde Mentality
7 Metaphor over Meaning 219
Language Art and Gray Humor
Part Three: The Post-’85 Avant-Garde
8 Kitsch and Complicity 255
The Case of Political Pop and Cynical Realism
9 Apartment Art 269
10 Maximalism 311
11 Conclusion 353
Glossary of Key Chinese Terms in the Order
in Which They Appear in the Text 363
Notes 371
Index 393 |
