For further reading on contemporary art, check out these resources I studied during my independent study:
Art and Politics:
Beam, Christopher. “Beyond Ai Weiwei: How China’s Artists Handle Politics (or Avoid Them).” The New Yorker (NY), March 27, 2015.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-weiwei-problem-political-art-china.
Perlez, Jane. "How Zeng Fanzhi Became China’s Hottest Artist, and Why His Lawn Is So Green." The New York Times (New York City, NY), November
11, 2016, The Saturday Profile.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/world/asia/china-art-zeng-fanzhi.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FArt%20and%20Architectur
e%20in%20China&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=collec
tion&mtrref=undefined.
Qin, Amy. "Artist Zeng Fanzhi on the Evolution of His Work and China’s Art Market." The New York Times (New York City, NY), September 22, 2016,
Sinosphere. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/asia/zeng-fanzhi-china.html.
Thornton, Sarah. "Scene 8: Zeng Fanzhi." In 33 Artists in 3 Acts, 49-53. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014
On Ai Weiwei:
Ai, Weiwei. "Ai Weiwei: How Censorship Works." The New York Times (New York City, NY), May 6, 2017, The Stone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/ai-weiwei-how-censorship-works.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone- share.
Ai, WeiWei, Chen Wei, Fang Lu, Chen Zhou, and Xiangyu He. 28 Chinese. Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez and Mera Rubell. Miami, FL: Rubell
Family Collection, 2014.
“Ai Weiwei – Sunflower Seeds.” Video file, 14:41. YouTube. Posted by Tate, October 14, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PueYywpkJW8.
FOR-SITE Foundation. "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz." FOR-SITE Foundation. Last modified September 27, 2014. https://www.for-site.org/project/
Osnos, Evan. “Ai Weiwei’s Freedom by Fiat.” The New Yorker (NY), July 23, 2015. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-weiweis-
Osnos, Evan. “It’s Not Beautiful.” The New Yorker (NY), May 24, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/24/its-not-beautiful.
So Sorry. Produced by Weiwei Ai. Ai Weiwei Studio, 2011. http://aiweiwei.com/documentaries/so-sorry/index.html.
Thornton, Sarah. "Scene 4: Ai Weiwei." In 33 Artists in 3 Acts, 22-26. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
On Yue Minjun:
Ho, Louis H. "Yue Minjun: Iconographies of Repetition." Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture 25, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 219-48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43492537.
Bridging the Gender Gap:
Cotter, Holland. "China’s Female Artists Quietly Emerge." The New York Times
(New York City, NY), July 30, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/arts/design/30arti.html.
Lau, Joyce. "Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene." The New York Times
(New York City, NY), January 20, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/21iht-women21.html.
Tatlow, Didi Kirsten. "In Art, a Strong Voice for Chinese Women." The New York Times (New York City, NY), March 7, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/world/asia/08iht-letter08.html.
On Cao Fei:
"Cao Fei in 'Fantasy.'" Video file, 13:43. Art 21. October 14, 2009. https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s5/cao-fei-in-fantasy-
Pollack, Barbara. "As China Evolves, the Artist Cao Fei Is Watching." The New York Times (New York City, NY), April 1, 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/arts/design/as-china-evolves-the-artist-cao-fei-is-watching.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%
2FArt%20and%20Architecture%20in%20China&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=streamunit&version=latest&
contentPlacement=20&pgtype=collection&mtrref=undefined.
On Lu Qing:
Thornton, Sarah. "Scene 7: Lu Qing." In 33 Artists in 3 Acts, 43-48. New York,
NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
China and the Art Market:
Buckley, Chris. "Sotheby’s New Major Shareholder Is Already a Power in Chinese Art." The New York Times (New York City, NY), July 31, 2016, Art & Design. https://goo.gl/mtknRk.
Erickson, Britta. The Reception in the West of Experimental Mainland Chinese Art of the 1990s. Report no. 10. 2002.
Geng, Olivia. "Painting, Politics and China’s Art Market: Q&A With Zhang Xiaogang." The Wall Street Journal (New York City, NY), October 5, 2016,
China Real Time Report. https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/10/05/painting-politics-and-chinas-art-market-qa-with-zhang-xiaogang/.
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Lin, Wang, and Yongqing Ye. Chinese Art and Market in the 1990s. Report no. 3. 1996.
Qin, Amy. "Art Basel Hong Kong: The Reviews Are In." The New York Times (New York City, NY), March 18, 2015, International Arts. goo.gl/sXjCU2.
Reyburn, Scott. "Market for Chinese Art Is Increasingly in China." The New York Times (New York City, NY), March 25, 2016, International Arts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/arts/international/market-for-chinese-art-is-increasingly-in-china.html.
Robertson, Iain, Dr. "Understanding the Chinese Art Market." Interview by Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s. Last modified February 12, 2015.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/eye-on-asia/2015/02/understanding-china-art-market.html.
Thornton, Sarah. "The Auction." In Seven Days in the Art World, 2-41. New York,
NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
Environmental Art:
Buckley, Chris, and Adam Wu. "Amid Smog Wave, an Artist Molds a Potent Symbol of Beijing’s Pollution." The New York Times (New York City, NY),
December 1, 2015, Asia Pacific. goo.gl/EKan8W .
Deitsch, Dina. "Maya Lin's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield."
Women's Art Journal 30, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2009): 3-10.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40605217 .
Piao, Vanessa. "Hiding in Plain Sight as Beijing Disappears Into Blanket of Smog." The New York Times (New York City, NY), December 24, 2015,
Asia Pacific. https://goo.gl/AzGMsC.
QAGOMA, "Falling Back to Earth." November 23, 2013 - May 12, 2014. Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia. https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/cai-guo-qiang.
General Contemporary Chinese Art (Background Research)
Erickson, Britta. "A Fleeting Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Art." In On The Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter The West, 10-30.
N.p.: Timezone 8/Cantor Arts Center, 2005.
Gladston, Paul. Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Critique of International and Indigenous Perspectives on
the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art. Research report no. 21. 2014. https://goo.gl/rKnTi2.
The Museum of Modern Art. Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents. New York
City, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. http://ebooksit.us/2016/04/contemporary-chinese-art-primary-documents.html.
Wu, Meichun, and Zhijie Qiu. The Rise and Development of Video Art and the Maturity of New Media Art. Report no. 8. 2002.
https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/learn/intnlprograms/8.%20CCA_Web_Rise%20and%20Dev%20of%20Video.pdf.
Looking Back on Tradition:
Birdhead. The Song of Early Spring. 2012. Analog. MoMA, New York City, NY.
https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/newphotography/birdhead/birdhead-8-2/index.html.
"Cai Guo-Qiang in 'Power.'" Video file, 13:03. Art 21. Accessed September 16, 2005.
https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s3/cai-guo-qiang-in-power-segment/.
Pollack, Barbara. Digging a Hole, Building a House: The Video Installations of Wang Gongxin. Report no. 2. 2008.
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-qiang. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Produced by
Wendi Deng Murdoch, Bennett Miller, Fisher Stevens, and Hugo Shong. Netflix, 2016.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80097472.
Notable Exhibitions:
Farago, Jason. "Chinese Artists Redraw Boundaries in ‘Tales of Our Time’." The New York Times (New York City, NY), December 1, 2016, Art &
Design. https://goo.gl/AfQihq.
Rubell Family Collection, "28 Chinese." June 5, 2015 - August 16, 2015. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
http://www.asianart.org/exhibitions_index/28-chinese.
The Met Fifth Avenue, "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China." December 11, 2013 – April 6, 2014. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York City, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/ink-art.
Tate Liverpool, "The Real Thing: Contemporary Art From China." March 30, 2007 - June 10, 2007. Tate, Liverpool, Britain.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/real-thing-contemporary-art-china.
Reimagining Language:
Ames, Roger T. "Reading Xu Bing's A Book From the Sky." In Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art, edited by Roger T. Ames and Hsingyuan Tsao,
33-62. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011.
https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.sfuhs.idm.oclc.org/lib/sfuhs-ebooks/reader.action?ppg=58&docID=3407104&tm=1498278837878.
Gu, Wenda. "Words in Art: Wenda Gu on Rewriting and Retranslating Traditional Chinese Culture." Interview. Art Radar. Last modified June 15,
Lau, Joyce. "Xu Bing: An Artist Who Bridges East and West." The New York Times (New York City, NY), May 19, 2011, Arts.