3 documents
# 65
Crimes Without a Scene: Qian Weikang and the New Measurement Group
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu
In the mid 1990s, the Shanghai artist Qian Weikang and the Beijing artist collective New Measurement Group (Chen Shaoping, Gu Denxin, and Wang Luyan) stopped making art. They did not foresee the difficulty we would encounter today in revisiting their work only two decades later. These were artists whose artistic vision and practice were deeply invested in modernizing contemporary art in China soon after 1989 by introducing self-imposed rules into the making of work, as well as with the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
China, Withdrawal, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art
# 56
From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism, Part II
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu
Continued “From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism, Part I”
In the 1940s, as Socialist Realism took form and began to emerge following the establishment of the Communist Party’s leading position in China, its language drew from the realism that had spread throughout the Chinese mainland in the 1920s and ’30s. After 1949, Mao started to develop a cultural policy and released several statements on the matter; realism gradually transformed into…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2014
Category
Communism, Contemporary Art, Globalization
Subjects
Socialist Realism, China, Realism, Censorship, Neoliberalism
# 55
From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism, Part I
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu
Socialist Realism was introduced into China in the first half of the twentieth century, and gradually became the main, overarching creative method of the revolutionary era, leading art, literature, theater, and other creative fields for decades. It is often seen as a highly politicized creative model that is the product of socialist, and particularly communist, political views. Over the past three decades, contemporary artists and art discussions often attempted to cast it off as an…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2014
Category
Communism, Marxism
Subjects
China, Socialist Realism, Censorship