Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

This catalog accompanied the 1999 groundbreaking exhibition documenting major trends in current Chinese experimental art. Like the exhibition, the catalog presents the paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations in three thematically linked sections: "Demystification," "Ruins," and "Transience." The twenty-one featured artists come from different parts of mainland China or are living abroad in Europe and the United States, and their styles and modes of expression vary. Many of these artists derive materials techniques, and concepts from both western and traditional Chinese aesthetics as they address the relationship between regionalism and globalization in contemporary art.

Wu Hung

$40.00
Second edition
Paper, 214 pages, 65 black and white photographs and 50 color plates
ISBN: 978-0226360713
© 1999, 2004