In the vein of Parr Badger History of Photobook series. Fascinating look at Chinese photo scene.
Small scuff to spine, otherwise VGC.
Very big book, so postage is higher.
Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art is
the first extensive catalogue of works by Chinese artists represented
in The Walther Collection. Showing visually inventive and emotionally
compelling artworks by 44 groundbreaking artists, Life and Dreams
demonstrates the remarkable speed with which photography and media art
have occupied important positions within the field of experimental
Chinese art since the early 1990s, and the widespread adoption of these
media and forms by successive generations of artists.
Throughout the catalogue, photographic works register artists’ responses
to the sweeping social and economic changes that have fundamentally
altered the face of China’s cities and transformed the fabric of
everyday life and social relations. Key approaches taken up by these
artists include the use of the bare body as raw material for creative
manipulation, the surveying of the architectural and the built
environment, the synthesizing of classical and historical imagery to
comment on contemporary issues, the consideration of China’s varied
political legacies and histories, and the shaping of new emergent forms
of individual and collective identity. Featured selections of media art
employ elaborately imaginative and fantasy-driven means to evoke an
ambiguous world of technological fantasy, suggesting where these changes
may be leading China and its inhabitants.
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