{"product_id":"9781350041974","title":"Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili : Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (Aesthetics and Contemporary Art)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades the previously assumed dominance within the international art world of western(ized) conceptions of aesthetic modernity has been challenged by a critically becalming diversification of cultural outlooks widely referred to as 'contemporaneity'. Contributing to that diversification are assertions within mainland China of essential differences between Chinese and western art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn response to the critical impasse posed by contemporaneity, Paul Gladston charts a historical relay of mutually formative interactions between the artworlds of China and the West as part of a new transcultural theory of artistic criticality. Informed by deconstructivism as well as syncretic Confucianism, Gladston extends this theory to a reading of the work of the artist Zhang Peili and his involvement with the Hangzhou-based art group, the Pond Association (Chi she). Revealed is a critical aesthetic productively resistant to any single interpretative viewpoint, including those of Chinese exceptionalism and the supposed immanence of deconstructivist uncertainty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing art in and from the People's Republic of China as a significant aspect of post-West contemporaneity, Gladston provides a new critical understanding of what it means to be 'contemporary' and the profound changes taking place in the art world today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49499488485603,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781350041974-1.jpg?v=1788379775","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781350041974","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}