Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China: Voices from Below (Routledge Research in Art and Politics)

by Meiqin Wang

Hardcover, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

REF.WAM

Publication

Routledge (2019), Edition: 1, 252 pages

Description

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China's top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious practices of eight art professionals who assume the role of artist, critic, curator, educator, cultural entrepreneur, and social activist, among others, as they strive to expose the injustice and inequality many Chinese people have suffered, raise public awareness of pressing social and environmental problems, and invent new ways and infrastructures to support various underprivileged social groups.

Physical description

9.8 inches

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

113831434X / 9781138314344

Local notes

Artists: Wang Nanming, Wang Jiuliang, Zheng Dazhen, Zuo Jing, Weng Fang, Hu Jianqiang, Wang Jun
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