Between State and Market

Chinese Contemporary Art in the Post-Mao Era
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26801-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 198 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1247 g

Reihe: Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture

Between State and Market: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Post-Mao Era examines the shift in the system of support for contemporary art in China between 1979 and 1993, from state patronage to the art market and the creative space in between.

Soaring prices for contemporary art has triggered a debate about the deleterious impact of the market on art. Yet Jane DeBevoise argues that, in the post-Mao period, the imaginary of the marketplace was liberating, offering artists an alternative framework of legitimacy and support. Based on primary research, DeBevoise examines the entangled role of the state and the market, and the negotiations of and how experimental artists and their champions in China negotiated to find a creative space between the two systems, to produce and promote their work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Debevoise, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader

Introduction

Part I The Evolving Role of the State in the Arts, 1978–89
1 The System of State Support for the Arts
2 The Debate over Luo Zhongli’s “Father”

Part II Introducing Market Reform in the Arts, 1978–89
3 The Changing Economics of Mainstream Art Practice
4 Emerging Entrepreneurialism in the Arts
5 Nascent Commercial Venues inside China

Part III Between State and Market, 1985–89
6 Discourse and Debate about the Market and the State
7 Alternative Media Platforms
8 Alternative Exhibition Platforms
9 The “China/Avant Garde Exhibition”

Part IV Big Business, 1990–93
10 Making a Market for Contemporary Chinese Art
11 Wang Guangyi and the “Great Criticism” Series
12 The Chinese Avant-Garde Moves Offshore

Conclusion
Bibliographies
List of Interviews
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane DeBevoise received her M.A. at the University of California, Berkeley (1982), and Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong (2009). Chair of Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong and New York, DeBevoise is an expert in Chinese art and has written and lectured widely.