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Mahjong : contemporary Chinese art from the Sigg Collection = 麻将

Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz ; c2005.

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Subject: Sigg, Uli
Art, Chinese
Publication Year:2005
Language:English
Published:Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz ; c2005.
ISBN:9783775716130
3775716130
9783775716130 (hbk.)
Notes:Published to accompany the exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Bern, 13th June - 16 Oct. 2005, and Kunsthalle Hamburg, Autumn 2006.
The multiple predicaments and upturns of Chinese contemporary art / Ai Weiwei -- Access to China / Uli Sigg in conversation with Matthias Frehner -- Contemporary Chinese art and a declining culture / Li Xianting -- Longing for paradise, negotiating with the real : looking at the Chinese art scene today / Hou Hanru -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : the new context of Chinese contemporary art since 2000 / Pi Li -- Contemporary Chinese art : a market report / Estelle Bories -- Cultural partnerships, maybe more : on the reception of contemporary Chinese art in the West / Bernhard Fibicher -- "Chineseness"--is there such a thing? A letter form Uli Sigg to the artists taking part in Mahjong - and their responses -- Icons of the 70s vs. icons of the 80s -- Mao and the Cultural Revolution -- Power play -- Myths and legends -- Individual vs. society -- Consumerism -- Contemporary life -- City vs. countryside -- Tradition revisited -- Chinese perspectives on western art -- Writing as painting -- Body as medium -- Chronology / Feng Boyi -- Short biographies / Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler.
Course: GEA112

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (5/F) 709.51 MAH 2005 Available