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dc.contributor.authorStrafella, Giorgio
dc.contributor.authorBerg, Daria
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-08T10:48:19Z
dc.date.available2023-03-08T10:48:19Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61653
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines the emergence and reception in China of ‘body art’ (shenti yishu or routi yishu) – one of the most extreme and controversial artistic trends of the postsocialist era – as a transcultural phenomenon. This chapter frames ‘body art’ in 1990s-2000s China within the atmosphere of cynicism which prevailed in the years after the events of 1989 and the heightened role of the market in the cultural sphere. The chapter argues that the notion that it behoves the Party-state to protect the bodies and minds of the people from harmful cultural spectacles represents a residue of Mao-era socialism in the postsocialist era. To investigate the reception of ‘body art’ by the Chinese art world, this chapter analyses a performance by woman artist Zhao Yue (b. 1981) entitled Gezi (Lattice, or Grids, 2007) and discusses the debate this work elicited among Chinese art critics. Its analysis reveals body art from China as a cultural trend where postsocialist biopolitics and gendered cultural identities intersect with transcultural flows of artistic experimentation, thus highlighting key tensions that animate the intellectual life of contemporary China.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statisticsen_US
dc.subject.otherBody Arten_US
dc.titleChapter 10 Stealing the art of painen_US
dc.title.alternativeBody art and Zhao Yue’s Latticeen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429325304-15en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook1799639a-eb51-421e-8a13-7e5327335772en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780367343576en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032332932en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages18en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Palacký University Olomouc


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