Tian Liming - Conversations with a Contemporary Chinese Artist

Author: Xu Lian
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Silence should not be the destiny of modern Chinese culture. Tolerating silence is tantamount to murdering modern Chinese culture. Breaking silence should be an active stance, rather than waiting for cultural giants to pick and choose. This initiative does not necessarily depend on the slow implementation of national cultural strategies, but should begin with individual, elite academic exchange projects and the research and promotion of individual artists. The book includes both the scattered thoughts and feelings of artists and their accumulated artistic creation experience and works. The resolute words in the book are thought-provoking, while the creative experiences and formal explorations also make one feel that the discourse system of contemporary Chinese art is within reach—in this sense, it is naturally an optimistic feeling.