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A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China (Hardcover)
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A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy and Cultural Identity
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In A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, Mary Bittner
Wiseman shows that material matters in the work of Chinese artists,
where the goal is to call attention to its subjects through the
directness and immediacy of its material, like dust from 9/11, 1001
Chinese citizens, paintings made with gunpowder, written words, or
the specificity of its sites, like the Three Gorges Dam. Artists
are working below the level of language where matter and gesture,
texture and touch, instinct and intuition live. Not reduced to the
words applied to them, art's subjects appear in their concrete
particularity, embedded in the stories of their materials or their
sites. Wiseman argues that it is global in being able to be
understood by all, as are the materials in the new art and the
stories that accompany them: here are items from Song Dong's
mother's home in the Cultural Revolution, here is dust from
6/11.Finally, it satisfies Arthur Danto's characterization of art
asany representation that shows something new about its subject or
puts it in a new light, by way of a rhetorical figure that the
viewer interprets. Danto has given criteria for a given work's
making the case for itself hat it is art. The material art from
China is the paradigm for an art that is global and contemporary.
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