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Theatre[edit]

  • Liang Luo, The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics, University of Michigan Press, 2014, 386 pp. Introduction.

Visual art, Contemporary art[edit]

Artists, movements[edit]

  • Kinetic art: Wen-Ying Tsai
  • Stars group: Ai Weiwei, Wang Keping, Li Shuang, Huang Rui, Ma Desheng.
  • Xiamen Dada: Huang Yong Ping, Lin Jiahua, Jia Yaoming, Yu Xiaogang, Xu Chengdou.
  • Rational painting: Wang Guangyi, Shu Qun, Ren Jian, Liu Yan, Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Wang Qiang.
  • Cynical realism: Yue Minjun, Fang Lijun, Yu Xiaogang, Yang Shaobin, Wang Jinsong, Song Yonghong.
  • Political pop: Wang Guangyi, Yu Youhan, Wang Ziwei, Feng Mengbo, Zhang Peili, Wei Guangqing, Qiu Zhijie.

Resources[edit]

Exhibitions (with dedicated websites)[edit]

Catalogues[edit]

  • Inside Out: New Chinese Art, ed. Minglu Gao, University of California Press, 1998. Gao's essay. [3] [4] (English)
  • Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1990-2000. The First Guangzhou Triennial, eds. Wu Hung, Huangsheng Wang, and Buyi Feng, Guangzhou: Guangdong Art Museum, 2002, 545 pp. The three main themes of the exhibition are "Memory and Reality,' "Self and Environment," and "Global and Local." Excerpt: "'Experimental Exhibitions' of the 1990s". Commentary: Hung (Yishu). [6] (English)
    • 首屆廣州當代藝術三年展 - 重新解讀: 中國實驗藝術十年, Guangzhou: Guangdong Museum of Art, 2002, 545 pp. [7] (Chinese)
  • Chinese Maximalism / Zhongguo ji duo zhu yi, ed. Minglu Gao, Chongqing Publishing House, with University at Buffalo Galleries and China Millennium Monument Museum, 2003, 123 pp. [8] (English)/(Chinese)
  • Echoes: Chengdu New Visual Art Documentary Exhibition 1989-2007 / 回響: 成都新視覺藝術文獻展 1989-2007, Chengdu: Sichuan Art Publishing Company, 2007, 222 pp. Exh. held at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space. [9] (Chinese)/(English)
  • Avant-Garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo: The National Art Center, and Osaka: The National Museum of Art, 2008, 184 pp. [10] (Japanese)/(English)
  • Action in China: Performance Art from 1980s to 1990s / 中國行動:八十年代到九十年代的行為藝術, ed. Pulin Wen, Beijing: Beijing Windhorse Mass Medium, 2009, 45 pp. [11] (Chinese)/(English)
  • On Yunnan: A Branch of Chinese Contemporary Art Since the 1990s / Chu yun nan ji: 90 nian dai yi lai de zhong guo dang dai yi shu zhi yi mai [出雲南記:90年代以來的中國當代藝術之一脈], ed. YE Yongqing (葉永青), Hong Kong: Beijing Center for the Arts Publishing House, 2010, 198 pp. Features around 40 works by 14 Yunnan-based artists. Exh. held 27 Mar-9 May 2010. [12] (Chinese)/(English)
  • A Constellation of Stars, Huang Rui and Ma Desheng: Art Editors 1978-1983 / 星星點點: 黃銳和馬德升的美編活動 1978-1983, Beijing: Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, 2013, 212 pp. [13] (English)/(Chinese)
  • Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, ed. Alexandra Munroe, New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2017, 324 pp. Features 150 works by 70 artists and collectives from 1989-2008. Texts by Jane DeBevoise, Katherine Grube, Lu Mingjun, Stephanie H. Tung, Anthony Yung, Xiaorui Zhu-Nowell. Exh. held 6 Oct 2017-7 Jan 2018. Publisher. (English)

Anthologies[edit]

Monographs[edit]

Journal issues[edit]

  • Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Intellect, since 2014. Three numbers per year. [21] (English)
  • Contemporaneity 4: "Open Ground Blog", forew. Gao Minglu, 2015. Special section with selection of four papers from Madeline Eschenburg and Ellen Larson's blog. (English)/(Chinese)

Selected essays[edit]

Theses[edit]

Documentary film[edit]

  • From Jean Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s, dir. Jane DeBevoise, Claire Hsu, Phoebe Wong, and Anthony Yung, 2010, 50 min. [23]

Underground and experimental poetry[edit]

Sound art[edit]

Media art[edit]

Cities
Events
  • eArts Festival, Shanghai, 2006-2010.
  • Synthetic Times, Beijing, 2008.
  • Invisible City Transmediale, Beijing, 2010.
  • Creators Project, UCCA 798, annually from 2010 to 2013.
  • Encode and Decode, Beijing, 2011.
  • Translife New Media Art Triennial, Beijing, 2011.
  • Motion is action, Beijing, 2013.
  • "ThingWorld", New Media Art Triennial, Beijing, 2014
Institutes
  • Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
  • Transmedia Department, China Academy of Arts
  • School of creative media, City University Hongkong
  • School of Design, Tsinghua University
  • TASML
  • Digital Art department, Central Academy of Media Arts
  • New Media Art department, Renmin University

Media theory[edit]

Resources[edit]