Painting against image

Renowned scholar Wang Min'an discusses contemporary art [Introduction]
The increasing diversity of materials and forms in contemporary art provides diverse avenues and a broader space for the presentation and expression of meaning. The creative attempts of contemporary artists embody profound reflection. Their works no longer focus on showcasing their technical proficiency, but instead focus on time, space, people, and objects, the multiple relationships between them, and the logic of the artist's own perception. This book examines renowned contemporary artists such as Shang Yang, Chen Danqing, Liu Xiaodong, and Ding Yi, offering an appreciation and reflection on their works, profoundly revealing the logic and tensions within contemporary art.
【Editor's Recommendation】
Is art a transcendence of reality, or an escape from it? Is art a self-revelation, or a self-redemption? Faced with the confusion of today, contemporary artists use their works to present the world as they see it. In response to the creations of contemporary artists, scholar Wang Min'an explores his own reflections. His rambling narrative engages in a dialogue with contemporary art, a dialogue also with himself: "I like to face a painting and invent it. In inventing it, I also invent myself, my own freewheeling essay."
"In short, nothing is particularly memorable. Small desires, small satisfactions, attention to trivial matters, the investment of libido in everyday things, the absorption of the mind in the moment—all of this is chewing, even savoring, the mediocrity of life."

2023-01-01

中国社会科学出版社

336

9787522705767