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Dr Joshua Gong is a leading expert on contemporary Chinese art. He taught at the University of Sussex and Shanghai Normal University. He was a recipient of the Young Scholar Grant, Tate Modern, 2015. His first monograph was nominated for the best art publication by the Award of Art China.
""This is a book that explores several distinct narratives about being-with the activity of art in ways that signify the overcoming of adversity and in the releasing of the intensity of painting as part of a resistant aesthetic process. The book presents a host of aesthetic encounters that invariably transport attention to the threshold of the experience of limit. Art is often the outcome of intense experience and this is true of the painter Xie Shan who suffered both sustained traumatic distress but also as a counter point to this ecstatic aesthetic release."" Jonathan Miles, ART.ZIP
