Anxiety Aesthetics

Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985

Jennifer Dorothy Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39377-6 (ISBN)

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Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Lee traces a selection of historical events and controversies in late 1970s and early 1980s Beijing. Lee offers a fresh critical frame for doing symptomatic readings of protest ephemera and artistic interventions in the Beijing Spring social movement of 1978–80, while exploring the rhetoric of heated debates waged in institutional contexts prior to the '85 New Wave. Lee demonstrates how socialist aesthetic theories and structures continued to shape young artists' engagement with both space and selfhood and occupied the minds of figures looking to reform the nation. In magnifying this fleeting moment, Lee provides a new historical foundation for the unprecedented global exposure of contemporary Chinese art today.

Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	31 color illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39377-5 / 0520393775
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39377-6 / 9780520393776
Zustand	Neuware