Liu Jianhua: Delight and Illusion / 劉建華：愉悅與幻想

This monograph contains an essay about the work of Liu Jianhua, by Zhu Qi, along with photodocumentation of his work, and colour plates.

'Since 1998, Liu Jianhua's seris of polychrome ceramics have reflected the artist's acknowledgement of the mind-body debate that underlies the schism between

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classical Materialism and Idealism... On one hand, it is Liu's intention to identify the sort of interior scenes portrayed by his work with an idealised version of "real" life, but on the other hand, the sofa, bathtub and cheongsam act as symbols for the artist's own anxiety and uncertainy, because these items have already lost their old meaning as signifiers... but have yet to acquire a new one. For this reason, they are seen as new, symbolically inchoate "other"'.

(Abstract from essay by Zhu Qi)

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