The Bishan Commune and the practice of socially engaged art in rural China /
This book is concerned with socially engaged art projects in the Chinese countryside, with the artists and intellectuals who are involved, the villagers they meet and the local authorities with whom they negotiate. In recent years an increasing number of urban artists have turned towards the country...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Language Notes: | In Chinese and English. |
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Singapore :
Palgrave MacMillan,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : Radical Rural Intellectuals
- 2. Fields of Socially Engaged Art
- 3. Imagining the Commune
- 4. The Great Leap Into Utopia
- 5. Trojan Horses or the Artist as Realtor
- 6. "Whose Villiage?
- 7. Conclusion : The end of Utopia?
- Epilogue : Guanxi Aesthetics or the State as Artistic Director