Traditions of reaction
post-revolution art from the People’s Republic of China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.6.227Keywords:
Post-revolutionary, PRC, Dynamic, Artist-state, Reform, TraditionAbstract
Surveying the recent history of art produced in China reveals a path which is wellworn. The voice of the Chinese artist is at once reactive and cyclical; forever circumscribing a conception of Chineseness itself. In a continuum of political tumult, we witness the intersection of art and authority, and it is in these instances that rhetoric is formed. The dynamic of artist and state oscillates endlessly; herein, we observe the restless banding and disbanding of past and present forms. Played out in aesthetic experience, Chinese art is characterised by the confluence of associations with and withdrawals from the very traditions upon which it is founded. Inquiry will chart the chronic flux of the artist’s voice, amid swelling politic and enduring reform.
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