Art History of the New Art and Visual Narrative

Author: Hunan Fine Arts
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The author, Zhu Qi, is one of the earliest independent curators in China. He has curated a series of influential avant-garde art exhibitions in the 1990s and written numerous influential avant-garde art reviews, representing one of the pioneers of the new generation of art critics. Zhu Qi has curated China's earliest installation art and avant-garde photography exhibitions and introduced the "Youth Brutality" art movement. New art history and visual narrative are emerging fields in the study of art history and art criticism practice. The author attempts to apply modernity theory, ideological criticism, cultural criticism, psychoanalysis, urban culture, and mass culture theory to the research of visual arts and avant-garde art criticism, thereby constructing a narrative of modern Chinese art history and contemporary art criticism. This book collects some of the most important illustrated essays and avant-garde reviews by the author since the 1990s in the fields of curation and writing.