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Xu Bing and contemporary Chinese art cultural and philosophical reflections / [electronic resource] : edited by Hsingyuan Tsao and Roger T. Ames. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 237 p. :) ill. ; - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture . - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A dilemma in contemporary Chinese art: an introduction / Tsao Hsingyuan and Roger T. Ames -- Reading and misreading: double entendre in locally oriented logos / Tsao Hsingyuan -- Reading Xu Bing's Book from the sky: a case study in the making of meaning / Roger T. Ames -- Seriousness, playfulness, and a religious reading of Tianshu / Kuan-Hung Chen -- Making natural languages in contemporary Chinese art / Richard Vinograd -- The living word: Xu Bing and the art of Chan word play / April Liu -- Transmission of meanings: a study of Shen wai shen (Body outside body) by Xu Bing / Kazuko Kameda-Madar -- The space between: cross-cultural encounters in contemporary Chinese art / Jerome Silbergeld -- Appendix. Bibliography on Xu Bing and related issues in contemporary Chinese art / Zoe Li -- List of important events between 1979 and 2005 / Susan Chang.

ISBN: 9781438437927 1438437927

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Xu, Bing, 1955- --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art, Chinese--Themes, motives.--21st century
Art, Chinese--Themes, motives.--20th century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: N7349.X8 / X8 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 709.51/09051