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Xu Bing

Part of the Chinese Contemporary Art Series Book Series

Editors: Fraser, Sarah E.; Li, Yu-Chieh

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3064-7

ISBN: 978-981-15-3063-0

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Jul 17, 2020

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Reactivating Tradition

XU, Bing; Li, Yu-Chieh

Pages: 1 –23

[In his inaugural lecture at Heidelberg University, Xu reviews his creative arc and addresses how Chinese traditions and socialist paradigms affect his artistic ideas. He begins by comparing Chinese traditional wisdom with Mao’s political rhetoric to argue that cultural DNA persists in our daily...
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Chapter 2In Dialogue with Xu Bing

XU, Bing; Fraser, Sarah E.

Pages: 25 –35

[In the second lecture, Xu Bing answers questions collected from students of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University, and the audience. Xu particularly addresses how he adjusts his installations according to different exhibition spaces and diverse audiences, concepts of nature in his art,...
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Chapter 3Audience Participation in Xu Bing’s Works: Transcultural Issues in Global Contemporary Art

XU, Bing; Fraser, Sarah E.; Juneja, Monica; Mittler, Barbara; Hopfener, Birgit; Trede, Melanie

Pages: 37 –57

[This is an edited transcription of the third Xu Bing event—a roundtable discussion on July 16, 2015, moderated by Professor Dr. Sarah E. Fraser. Xu’s address was delivered as Distinguished Visiting Professor supported by the Heinz Götze Foundation. He provides a brief overview of his recent...
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Chapter 4Beyond Ink: Contemporary Experimental Ink Art

Fraser, Sarah E.

Pages: 59 –74

[What defines avant-garde ink art? This issue was raised in the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from 2013 to 2014 titled Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China. A debate centers around whether contemporary works of art without the actual presence of ink material...
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Chapter 5Borrowed Bodies, Native Tongues: Xu Bing’s Animalworks

Cheng, Meiling

Pages: 75 –86

[Meiling Cheng argues that there is a conceptual turn in Xu Bing’s work associated with his use of animals since the 1990s. After Book from the Sky, Xu’s intercultural sensitivity shifted from using pseudo-scripts to incorporating animals in his discussions of the language system, counterfeit...
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Chapter 6Two-Dimensionality in Installation Art: The Case of Xu Bing, Wenda Gu, and Yang Jiechang

Li, Yu-Chieh

Pages: 87 –96

[Installation art is a popular postmodern art genre that accommodates diverse mediums, styles, and social-political issues. There is, however, a lack of analysis of how the space in installation art affects its reception. This article examines the two-dimensional quality in early installation art...
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Chapter 7From Small Woodcuts to Experimental Printmaking: Xu Bing in the 1980s

WU, Yao

Pages: 97 –107

[This essay examines Xu Bing’s training and practice as a printmaker in the 1980s, highlighting the significance of his local beginnings. It traces his evolution from an art student excelling in making small woodcuts in a Chinese academic style to an artist exploring experimental printmaking. In...
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Chapter 8Behind the Painting: Xu Bing’s Hybrid Landscapes

Clark, John

Pages: 109 –114

[This article concerns nature and symbols and their appearance in Xu Bing’s innovative Background Stories series. I will demonstrate that although nature seems to be a thematic focus of Xu Bing’s recent practice, his attention shifts to pictorial signs and methods to engage the audience rather...
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Chapter 9Phoenix Project: An Afterimage of Labor

Guo, Xinran

Pages: 115 –126

[This essay examines Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project (2008–2010), which comprises two colossal phoenixes assembled from construction debris, workers’ clothing, and daily utensils. I compare the way Phoenix Project addresses labor issues to an afterimage—an image that remains in the viewer’s retina...
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Chapter 10The Changing Paradigm of Realism in China: The Case of Xu Bing

YANG, Xiao

Pages: 127 –136

[This essay proposes that Xu Bing’s artworks, from Book from the Sky to Phoenix, should be seen as engaging larger discourses of twentieth-century Realism operative in the realms of Chinese literature and art. As a concept, Realism has had a local history of shifting meanings in China since it...

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