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  title info:
    title: Invisible ink
    sub title: feminism and identity in contemporary Chinese art
  name:
    name part: Guest, Luise.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Analysing how Chinese women artists have reinvented traditional forms of ink and brush painting, Invisible Ink explores ink as a tool of gender and art-historical subversion. The book shows how five Chinese women artists-- Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin, Xiao Lu and Xie Rong-- have examined pertinent themes such as motherhood and daughterhood, China's One Child Policy, and menopause in a society that prizes youth and beauty, through their shared re-appropriation of traditional Chinese ink and brush painting. Each chapter examines one artist, analysing key works and drawing on interviews with the artists themselves. It positions the artists as intervening, not only in historically-exclusive, elitist literati traditions, but also in contemporary art discourses in which their contributions have been similarly marginalized. Addressing an understudied aspect of contemporary Chinese art, Invisible Ink powerfully illuminates the reinvention of Chinese material culture through a transcultural, intersectional feminist lens, revealing the ways in which women artists have drawn on historical art forms to challenge contemporary political and social structures in China today"--Back cover.
  table of contents: Hiding in plain sight: where are the women? -- Rituals of ink and water: painting as performance in the work of Xiao Lu -- 'Upstairs girls' : n|shu reinvented in the work of Tao Aimin -- From silence to speech: mothers and daughters in the work of Ma Yanling -- A trespasser in the literati garden: Bingyi's poetics of ink -- Body calligraphy: Xie Rong's autobiographies -- Conclusion: ink art as a feminist praxis.
  note: Luise Guest.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Feminism and art
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Ink painting, Chinese
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Women artists
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Féminisme et art
    geographic: Chine
  subject:
    topic: Femmes artistes
    geographic: Chine
  subject:
    topic: Peinture à l'encre chinoise
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Feminism and art
  subject:
    topic: Ink painting, Chinese
  subject:
    topic: Women artists
  subject:
    geographic: China
  classification: N72.F45 G84 2026
  identifier: 9781350433953
  identifier: 1350433950
  identifier: 9781350433960
  identifier: 9781350433977
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: IUP
    record creation date: 260401
    record change date: 20260530145636.5
    record identifier: in00005783432
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng