Half the sky : conversations with women artists in China / Luise Guest.

By:

Guest, Luise

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Dawes Point, N.S.W. : Piper Press, 2016.Description: 224 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cmISBN:

9780980834741
0980834740

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DDC classification:

709.51 GUE

Contents:

Prologue -- Introduction -- Alter egos and avatars -- Two gunshots in Beijing -- Needle and thread: material practices -- 'Black as lacquer': reinventing ink -- Painting the zeitgeist -- Past and present -- Inscriptions on the body -- Nüshu: a secret language of women -- A window opens -- Blurred boundaries -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements

Summary: Half the sky is the first major book on contemporary women artists in China. The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said zWomen hold up half the skyy. This book reveals the work and lives of 32 artists : Bu Hua, Cui Xiuwen, Cao Fei, Xiao Lu, Lin Jingjing, Lin Tianmiao, Yin Xiuzhen, Li Tingting, Shi Zhiying, Gao Ping, Bingyi, Yu Hong, Xie Qi, Han Yajuan, Dong Yuan, Wang Zhibo, Huang Jingyuan, He Chengyao, Yingmei Duan, Ma Qiusha, Tao Aimin, Ma Yanling, Chen Lingyang, Zhou Hongbing, Liu Shiyuan, Fang Lu, Liang Yuanwei, Li Shurui, and Qin Fengling.

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Title notes ( 4 )

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.51 GUE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100583963

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today.

The author of Half the Sky is Luise Guest, Director of Education and Research at the White Rabbit Gallery which houses one of the world's great collections of contemporary Chinese art. Luise believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.'

Includes bibliographical references.

Half the sky is the first major book on contemporary women artists in China. The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said zWomen hold up half the skyy. This book reveals the work and lives of 32 artists : Bu Hua, Cui Xiuwen, Cao Fei, Xiao Lu, Lin Jingjing, Lin Tianmiao, Yin Xiuzhen, Li Tingting, Shi Zhiying, Gao Ping, Bingyi, Yu Hong, Xie Qi, Han Yajuan, Dong Yuan, Wang Zhibo, Huang Jingyuan, He Chengyao, Yingmei Duan, Ma Qiusha, Tao Aimin, Ma Yanling, Chen Lingyang, Zhou Hongbing, Liu Shiyuan, Fang Lu, Liang Yuanwei, Li Shurui, and Qin Fengling.