The Art of Mu Xin

The Art of Mu Xin
Author: Mu Xin
Publisher: Yale Univ Art Gallery
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300090758

Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading artist-intellectuals of the Chinesediaspora. Now living in New York City, he is known for his complex writings and paintings. A formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, Mu Xin is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities and intellectual traditions. This beautifully illustrated catalogue focuses on a group of thirty-three landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted between 1977 and 1979, in the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Many of these works have never been exhibited or published in the West. In addition, the book features Mu Xin's Prison Notes, sixty-six sheets that were written when the artist was in solitary confinement in China in 1971-72. This catalogue will accompany an exhibition on view at the Yale University Art Gallery from October 2 to December 9, 2001. The exhibition will then travel to the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago from January 24 through March 31, 2002, at the Honolulu Academy of Art from October 2 to December 1, 2002 and at the Asia Society in New York City. Other venues to be anounced.

An Empty Room: Stories

An Empty Room: Stories
Author: Mu Xin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811219666

A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals. An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway’s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata’s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin’s wandering “I” interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribbles notes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.

Artists in Exile

Artists in Exile
Author: Frauke Josenhans
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300225709

An unprecedented survey of artists in exile from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to Asian, Latin American, African American, and female artists This timely book offers a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated study of exiled artists from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to individuals who have often been relegated to the margins of publications on exile in art history. The artworks featured here, including photography, paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture, present an expanded view of the conditions of exile--forced or voluntary--as an agent for both trauma and ingenuity. The introduction outlines the history and perception of exile in art over the past 200 years, and the book's four sections explore its aesthetic impact through the themes of home and mobility, nostalgia, transfer and adjustment, and identity. Essays and catalogue entries in each section showcase diverse artists, including not only European ones--like Jacques-Louis David, Paul Gauguin, George Grosz, and Kurt Schwitters--but also female, African American, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern artists, such as Elizabeth Catlett, Harold Cousins, Mona Hatoum, Lotte Jacobi, An-My Lê, Matta, Ana Mendieta, Abelardo Morell, Mu Xin, and Shirin Neshat.

Chinese Sculpture

Chinese Sculpture
Author: Angela Falco Howard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300100655

Spanning some 7000 years, 'Chinese Sculpture' explores a beautiful and diverse world of objects, many of which have only come to light in the later half of the 20th century. The authors analyse and present, mostly in colour, some 500 examples of Chinese sculpture.

MAVO

MAVO
Author: Gennifer Weisenfeld
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2002-02-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520223387

Mavo were aJapanese group of artists active in Tokyo from 1923-1925.

Chinese Brutalism Today

Chinese Brutalism Today
Author: Alberto Bologna
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781943532384

Chinese Brutalism Today' is divided into three chapters and ends with a methodological afterword that explains the reasons why the research was carried out and the scientific tools used. The first chapter is "Exposed concrete in the design process," the second is "Identity Research: Towards an Ornate Surface" and the third is "Global ambition: towards a polished surface." The narration takes place through a substantial written part accompanied by specific images that facilitate the understanding of the text. Transversally, in the narrative, an interpretation is given to the precise and ambiguous dictates announced in 2017 by President Xi Jinping: to pursue a contemporary architecture made of "international standards with Chinese characteristics."

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
Author: Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300094477

Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage

‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage
Author: Paul Bevan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004428739

In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
Author: Wu Hung
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2010
Genre: Art, Chinese
ISBN: 0870706470

Invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand contemporary Chinese art, one of the most fascinating art scenes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Making History

Making History
Author: Wu Hung
Publisher: Timezone 8 Limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789889961701

This volume analyzes the cultural origins, precedents, influences and aspirations of the contemporary Chinese artists.