Collins Memorial Library: ARTH 369: Chinese Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: Home

Instructions

One option for your final research project is to write a research paper. It should be a clearly focused, critically analyzed, and well-written paper of 10 double-spaced pages on a thematic topic, addressing specific works of art, with notes and a brief bibliography.

You may choose a topic but are encouraged to discuss your ideas with your professor. Some potential topics include: Art, Politics, and Power, Language/Anti-Language, Writing/Anti-Writing, Memory, Identity, Womanhood

Oxford Art Online

Covers biographies, criticism, country surveys, artistic styles and movements, art forms, subject matter and iconography, and techniques. Note: Limit of 3 simultaneous users.

Art Online (Oxford)
Covers all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. Includes the full text of 'The Dictionary of Art,' and gives users access to subject entries, biographies, bibliographic citations, image links and images contained within Grove Art Online, as well as entries and images from the 'Oxford Companion to Western Art,' the 'Concise Dictionary of Art Terms,' and 'Oxford’s Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.' Thematic timelines and learning resources are also included.

Access limited to 3 simultaneous users.

Background Sources

Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art by Hugo Munsterberg
Call Number: Reference (N7337 .M85)
ISBN: 9780878172481
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Modern Chinese Artists by Michael Sullivan
Call Number: Reference (N7348 .S85 2006 )
ISBN: 9780520244498
Publication Date: 2006-04-03
The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Encyclopedia of Modern China by David Pong
Call Number: Click on the title above for online access.
Publication Date: 2009
Covers the people, politics, economics, history, religion, philosophy, traditions, art, and literature of Chinese civilization from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture by Edward L. Davis (Editor)
Call Number: DS779.23 .E53 2005 Print reference (first floor of library near the Learning Commons)
Publication Date: 2005
Explore Chinese popular culture since 1980 in entries on a diverse range of subjects: from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines, alongside entries on lotteries, gay cinema, political jokes, sex shops, theme parks, "New Authoritarians" and "Little Emperors."
Berkshire Encyclopedia of China by Mary Bagg (Editor)
Call Number: Click on the title above for online access.
Publication Date: 2008
Provides insight into Chinese history and culture today in nearly a thousand articles that include everything from Adoption and Banking to Wound Literature and the Zhou Dynasty

Highlighted Books

Contemporary Chinese Art by Wu Hung (Editor); Peggy Wang (Editor)
Call Number: N7345 .C665 2010
ISBN: 9780822349433
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Arranged in chronological order, the texts guide readers through the development of avant-garde Chinese art from 1976 until 2006. The primary documents include the manifestos of avant-garde groups, prefaces to important exhibitions, writings by representative artists, important critical and analytical essays, and even some official documents.
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China by Wu Hung
Call Number: N7345 W814 2000
ISBN: 9780935573336
Publication Date: 2000-02-15
During this time of rapid change in mainland China, artists and curators are seeking new ways to show work, and finding new allies, patrons and audiences. They are investigating ways to respond to official antagonism, to realize the potential of experimental art in the public sphere, and to maintain the independence of this art in an increasingly commercialized society. Wu addresses these issues through a survey of current exhibition practices, a discussion of the Smart Museum exhibition, a case study of It's Me, a rich collection of primary materials from eleven recent exhibitions.
Young Chinese Artists by Christoph Noe; Xenia Piech; Cordelia Steiner
Call Number: N7348 .Y68 2010
ISBN: 9783791350608
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
The artists presented in this book came of age in a time when freedom of thought and expression was possible, if not exactly permitted. Unlike their predecessors, these artists did not feel a compulsion to politicize their work. The result is a generation that accepts materialism and economic growth as a part of the Chinese experience-and this paradigm is apparent in their arresting and often shocking works of art.

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Try the following search terms to find resources in Primo. Copy and paste into the search box above.

Broad Search Terms:

Art, Chinese

Ink Painting, Chinese

Painting, Chinese

Painting, Chinese Catalogs

Painting, Chinese Exhibitions

Painting, Chinese History

Public Art, China

Art, Chinese Influences

Art, Chinese Western Influences

Symbolism in Art Chinese

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Art Chinese Song-Yuan Dynasties

Art Patronage China History

Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

Art, Chinese 20th Century

Art Chinese 21st Century

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