Youhan (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 112 Pages/Seiten - Focusing on three Shanghai-based Chinese contemporary artists -- Shen Fan, Ding Yi and their teacher Yu Youhan -- this bright yellow exhibition catalog documents a landmark show in Germany. Asking what exactly is Chinese about Chinese contemporary art, the exhibition answers the question with reference to millienia-old Chinese traditions and their interplay with Western modernism. All three artists make non-figurative work, but Yu Youhan, shaped by the repressive Cultural Revolution, had to pursue his art in secret, at great risk, with the goal of freeing Chinese art from the propagandistic style of social realism. Yu pushed the door open for his students, whose work reflects the dramatic changes in China since Tiananmen Square. With reproductions and many photos of the exhibition itself.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contemporary Art in Shanghai offers a series of in-depth and illustrated conversations with seven contemporary Chinese artists, all of whom live and work in and around the city of Shanghai: Yu Youhan, Liang Shaoji, Ding Yi, Yang Fudong, Song Tao, Ji Weiyu and Zhang Ding.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Focusing on three Shanghai-based Chinese contemporary artists -- Shen Fan, Ding Yi and their teacher Yu Youhan -- this bright yellow exhibition catalog documents a landmark show in Germany. Asking what exactly is Chinese about Chinese contemporary art, the exhibition answers the question with reference to millienia-old Chinese traditions and their interplay with Western modernism. All three artists make non-figurative work, but Yu Youhan, shaped by the repressive Cultural Revolution, had to pursue his art in secret, at great risk, with the goal of freeing Chinese art from the propagandistic style of social realism. Yu pushed the door open for his students, whose work reflects the dramatic changes in China since Tiananmen Square. With reproductions and many photos of the exhibition itself.…

stiff wraps. 1st Edition. 1st ed., slim quarto, illustrated wraps, colour plates, pp 32. Very good condition. Catalogue which accompanied the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, 2 June - 15 August 1993. The exhibition was "the first major showing of current Chinese art outside greater China". Contemporary Chinese artists and essays on the evolution of modern Chinese art. The cover features Yu Youhan's pop art "The waving Mao" (1990). An important catalogue, now uncommon.…