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Conference Paper: Wuming Art - a visual critique of revolutionary modernity
Title | Wuming Art - a visual critique of revolutionary modernity |
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Issue Date | 2011 |
Publisher | AAS-ICAS Joint Conference |
Citation | The 2011 Special Joint Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, HI., 31 March-3 April 2011. How to Cite? The 2011 Special Joint Conference of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, HI., 31 March-3 April 2011. How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper studies an underground art group active in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, named Wuming (meaning No Name). It breaks with the analytical discourse of “dissidents”, “victims”, and Chinese “modernity”. Instead, it treats Wuming art as a visual critique of that modernity – of industrialization, the destruction of traditional culture and communities, alienation, the exploitation of nature, the formation of mass society, disenchantment and loss of meaning, and the cult of progress in continued revolution. The paper explores three promises of the Wuming case. As a history, it challenges the master narrative of the Cultural Revolution depicting subjects as brainwashed victims and mobs, by disclosing creative agents and self-inventing subjectivity. As a community, it reveals novel social forms and forces from the grassroots, and new kinds of social identity. And as art, it critiques revolutionary modernity, creating other visions, other images, and other projections of modernity. |
Description | In Celebration of 70 years of Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Session 82: The Multiplicity of Visual Arts: Critiques, Witness, Commodification, and Envisioning |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/166214 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, A | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-20T08:30:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-20T08:30:17Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2011 Special Joint Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, HI., 31 March-3 April 2011. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2011 Special Joint Conference of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, HI., 31 March-3 April 2011. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/166214 | - |
dc.description | In Celebration of 70 years of Asian Studies | - |
dc.description | China and Inner Asia Session 82: The Multiplicity of Visual Arts: Critiques, Witness, Commodification, and Envisioning | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper studies an underground art group active in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, named Wuming (meaning No Name). It breaks with the analytical discourse of “dissidents”, “victims”, and Chinese “modernity”. Instead, it treats Wuming art as a visual critique of that modernity – of industrialization, the destruction of traditional culture and communities, alienation, the exploitation of nature, the formation of mass society, disenchantment and loss of meaning, and the cult of progress in continued revolution. The paper explores three promises of the Wuming case. As a history, it challenges the master narrative of the Cultural Revolution depicting subjects as brainwashed victims and mobs, by disclosing creative agents and self-inventing subjectivity. As a community, it reveals novel social forms and forces from the grassroots, and new kinds of social identity. And as art, it critiques revolutionary modernity, creating other visions, other images, and other projections of modernity. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | AAS-ICAS Joint Conference | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | AAS-ICAS Joint Conference | en_US |
dc.title | Wuming Art - a visual critique of revolutionary modernity | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Wang, A: awang@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Wang, A=rp01155 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 210760 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |