HALF THE SKY: Women Artists in China
Piper Press, Sydney. 2016
ISBN 9780980834741
Artists in China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' Luise Guest believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.' The artists include
Piper Press, Sydney. 2016
ISBN 9780980834741
Artists in China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' Luise Guest believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.' The artists include
- Xiao Lu, Cui Xiuwen, Bu Hua, Bingyi, Cao Fei, Yu Hong, Qin Fengling, Lin Tianmiao, Yin Xiuzhen, Gao Rong, Dong Yuan, Tao Aimin and many others
Establishing new connections between people and things via artistic media and material culture, this highly interdisciplinary volume brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, material culture, museum and heritage studies and literary studies to investigate the intersection of the personal with the material.
Raising vital questions of cultural identity, belonging and selfhood, Material Selves is the first book of its kind to consider the relationship between people and things across transcultural and transhistorical contexts. It employs innovative methodologies across ten chapters and critically expands on current models for understanding the dynamic relationship between people and things by tracing the central role objects have played in the construction, creation and performance of identity throughout history.
Luise Guest's contribution appears in Part 3:
Reclamation and Intervention
Chapter 8. A Female Embodiment: Gendered Materiality in Chinese Contemporary Art Practices, Luise Guest (University of New South Wales, Australia) examines the material and conceptual practices of Tao Aimin, Cao Yu and Liu Xi, focusing on connections between materiality, female subjectivities and embodied experiences of gender.