Thursday, December 18, 2008

Global POSTmodernIZATION: The intellectual, the Artist and China's condition (Sheldon hsiao-peng Lu)

in Postmodernism and China
postmodern art in post-new China have gone through two phases:
1) "political pop" a combination of American pop art and Chinese politics
juxtaposition of "ontologically different worlds" on a depthless surface(e.g., commercial billboards next to or on top of images of revolutionary workers, etc)
this genre international recognization first major exhibition Hongkong 1993
by Hanart T Z Gallery
pop masters have become China's new millionaires
2) proclaim that they will not "play the political card"
Create an international postmodern art that is independent of nationality and ethnicity
Installation art uncollectible noncommercial and not very lucrative many avant-guard artists have no institutinal affiliation and they constitute one of the most marginal, displaced classes in Chinese society
(how do they make a living? I can understand the uncollectible installation art is a gesture against the commodification of art yet as it has been established as a genre i am wondering whether it has established a system of subsidizing )

Irving Sandler, Art of Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (New York, Harpercollins, 1996)
"postminimalism dematerialized the object(process art); spread it out into its surroundings (process art and earth art); formulated an idea and presented that as a work of art(conceptual art); and employed their own bodies in performance (body art). Ephemeral 'situations' in actual space and real time struck the art world as radical because they dispensed with art-as-precious object."

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