Contemporary Chinese Art

Contemporary Chinese Art

Thames & Hudson
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2014

From the publisher:

From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a globalized art world. In this first major introduction to the topic, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused, and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from the 1970s to the 2000s, a time span characterized by radical social, political, and economic change in China. The book is a richly illustrated and easy-to-navigate chronological survey that considers contemporary Chinese art both in the context of China’s history and in a global arena. Wu Hung explores the emergence of contemporary art—as opposed to officially sanctioned art—in the public sphere after the Cultural Revolution; the mobilization by young artists and critics of a nationwide avant-garde movement in the mid-1980s; the re-emphasis on individual creativity in the late 1980s and the heightened spirit of experimentation of the 1990s; and the more recent identification of Chinese artists, such as Ai Weiwei, as global citizens who create works for an international audience.

Publications

Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

University of Texas Press
,
2023

Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
,
2022

Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America 

Yale University Press
,
2022

Building with Paper. The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings, eds. D. Donetti and C. Rachele

Brepols
,
2021

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)

University of Chicago Press
,
2021

Francesco da Sangallo e l'identità dell'architettura toscana

Officina Libraria (Milano)
,
2020

“Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta,” in Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta 

Northwestern University Press
,
2020

First Class: Teaching Chinese Art History at Harvard University and the University of Chicago

Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
,
2020

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century

Zone Books
,
2019

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE

Second Edition. London and New York: Thames and Hudson
,
2019

Conditions of Visibility

Oxford: Oxford University Press
,
2019

Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology

Co-authored with Leslie Kurke. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
,
2019

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art

Edited with Alejandro Anreus and Robin Greeley, Wiley-Blackwell
,
2019

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)

Smart Museum of Art/University of Chicago Press
,
May 2019

Architecture and Dystopia

edited by D. Donetti. Barcelona/New York: Actar Publishers
,
2019

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

Edited with Robert Cozzolino, University of Chicago Press
,
2018

Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi

eds. D. Donetti, M. Faietti, S. Frommel. Giunti Editore
,
2017

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social 

(eds. Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo, Eivind Røssaak), Amsterdam University Press
,
2017

The Ark of Civilization

Editor with Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider, Oxford University Press
,
2017

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

Editor with Jesús Hernandez Lobato, Oxford University Press
,
2017

The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (with Elizabeth Horodowich), Cambridge University Press, 2017

Cambridge University Press
,
2017

Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory

I.B. Tauris
,
2016

The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

New York: Sternberg Press
,
2016

Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China

University of Chicago Press
,
2016

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

Penn State University Press
,
2016

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures

With Bethany Wiggin, Northwestern University Press
,
2011

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence 

Penn State University Press
,
2016

Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The University of Virginia Press
,
2015

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

University of Chicago Press
,
2015

Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli

Oxford University Press
,
2015

The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs

University of Chicago Press
,
2015

«Di molte figure adornato»: L’Orlando furioso nei cicli pittorici fra Cinque e Seicento. Milano: Officina Libraria, 2015.

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Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition 

edited and translated with Mechtild Widrich, Bloomsbury
,
1853/ 2015

The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico

University of Texas Press
,
2015

The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

University of North Carolina Press
,
2014

En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I

Co-authored with Teri Edelstein. The University of Chicago Press
,
2014

Contemporary Chinese Art

Thames & Hudson
,
2014

Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai

University of Washington Press
,
2014

Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes 

Les Presses du réel
,
2014

Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum (Laura Giles and Claire Van Cleave), Yale University Press, 2014

Yale University Press
,
2014

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture,

Editor with Michel Meyer, Cambridge University Press
,
2014

Kunst und Archäologie der griechischen Welt: Von den Anfängen bis zum Hellenismus

Philipp von Zabern
,
2013

The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak

with Mary Miller, University of Texas Press
,
2013

Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience

University of Chicago Press
,
2013

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

University of Chicago Press
,
2013

Capital Culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

The University of Chicago Press
,
2013

Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century

Northwestern University Press
,
2013

A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Princeton University Press
,
2012

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500 - c. 150 BCE

First Edition. Thames and Hudson
,
2012

Vision and Communism

Editor with Robert Bird, Christopher Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka and Stephanie Smith, The New Press
,
2011

Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England

Yale University Press
,
2011

Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi

Editor with Janet Huskinson, De Gruyter
,
2011

Cloning Terror: the War of Images 9/11 to the Present

University of Chicago Press
,
2011

A Field Guide to a New Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide

The University of Chicago Press
,
2011

Saints: Faith at the Borders

Editor with Françoise Meltzer, University of Chicago Press
,
2011

Éfficacité/Efficacity: How to Do Things with Words and Images?

With Jan Baetens & Véronique Plesch, Rodopi
,
2011

Bild und Text im Mittelalter (Sensus, 2)

Edited with Barbara Schellewald. Cologne: Böhlau
,
2011

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

Duke University Press
,
2010

The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

University of Chicago Press
,
2010

Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

University of Chicago Press
,
2010

Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art

Blue Kingfisher
,
2009

Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships

With Véronique Plesch & Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Rodopi
,
2009

Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color

with Stephen Houston and colleagues, University of Texas Press
,
2009

Looking and Listening in 19th Century France (With Anne Leonard)

University of Chicago Press
,
2008

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age 

The University of Chicago Press
,
2008

Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

Yale University Press
,
2008

The Writing of Modern Life: the Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 

Editor, The University of Chicago Press
,
2008

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images

The University of Chicago Press
,
2007

Severan Culture

Editor with Stephen Harrison and Simon Swain, Cambridge University Press
,
2007

Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text 

Princeton University Press
,
2007

On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture

Sternberg Press
,
2007

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

University of Chicago Press
,
2006

Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation

University of Chicago Press
,
2005

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space

University of Chicago Press
,
2005

Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz 

Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
,
2004

Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury

Acanthus Press
,
2004

Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties

Pordenone
,
2004

The Name of the Game: Ray Johnson's Postal Performance

Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Stedelijk Museum Sittard
,
2003

Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E.

Cambridge University Press
,
2002

Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections

The University of Chicago Press
,
2002

Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

University of Chicago Press
,
2001

Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem

With L. Mullings, New York: Kluwar
,
2001

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

British Film Institute
,
2000

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

University of Chicago Press
,
2000

Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages;  

Yale University Press
,
1999

Legends in Limestone: Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

University of Chicago Press
,
1999

The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon

University of Chicago Press
,
1998

Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller

Wayne State University Press
,
1998

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450

Oxford University Press
,
1998

Rural Scenes and National Representation, Britain 1815-1850 

Princeton University Press
,
1997

The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting

University of Chicago Press
,
1996

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume II

Cambridge University Press
,
1996

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume I

Cambridge University Press
,
1996

Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde

University of Chicago Press
,
1996

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

University of Chicago Press
,
1995

Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture

Stanford University Press
,
1995

Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions

with Simon Coleman, British Museum Press and Harvard University Press
,
1995

Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity

Cambridge University Press
,
1995

Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education

The MIT Press
,
1994

D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film

University of Illinois Press
,
1994

In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais De Justice in Second Empire Paris

Princeton University Press
,
1993

Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America

The University of Chicago Press
,
1990

The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art

Stanford University Press
,
1989

Kilowatts and Crisis: Hydroelectric Power and Social Dislocation in Eastern Panama

Boulder, CO: Westview Press
,
1989

The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883

co-authored with Robin Sheets and William Veeder, 3 vols., Garland, 1983, and The University of Chicago Press
,
1989

Hildegard Auer: A Yearning for Art

Rizzoli International Publications
,
1987

Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry

Princeton University Press
,
1978

Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum

The University of Chicago
,
1975

The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years, 1790-1860

The University of Chicago Press
,
1966, 1982

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine

The MIT Press
,
1991