Contemporary Chinese Art And Film Theory Applied And Resisted Kuo by Kuo, Ed. Jason C 9780986021664, 0986021660 instant download after payment.

In the past two decades, contemporary Chinese art and film have attracted a great deal of media and academic attention in the West, and scholars have adopted a variety of approaches to Chinese film and visual studies. As English scholarship in this area has continued to expand, it is time for us to assess progress, problems, and prospects in our research agendas and methodologies. The present volume focuses, therefore, on the uses and status of theory originating in non-Chinese places in the creation, curating, narration, and criticism of contemporary Chinese visual culture (broadly defined to include traditional media in the visual arts as well as cinema, installation, video, etc.). One of the main themes of the book is the appropriateness (that is, the uses, abuses, appropriations, limits, etc.) of Western theory. Contributors reflect on the written and, even more interestingly, the unwritten assumptions of artists, critics, historians, and curators in applying or resisting these theories. They also reflect on the status of theory in our scholarship; by necessity, theory in this case is broadly conceived to include not only critical theory in the West but also basic concepts that enable us to engage in different modes of perception, articulation, negotiation, and interrogation. Theory is also linked to our disciplinary traditions and innovations, as scholars from art history, film studies, and Chinese studies investigate different aspects of Chinese art and film in our knowledge production.