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feminism and identity in contemporary Chinese art
"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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.