New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art

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Alex Burchmore

New Export China

Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art

Alex Burchmore

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University of California Press
11 August 2023

The Arts: General & Reference

Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique genre of ceramic art to describe a framework for a broader art practice. Focusing on the work of four artists from the 1990s through the 2010s—Liu Jianhua, Ai Weiwei, Ah Xian, and Sin-ying Ho—Burchmore reveals how the materiality of ceramics has been used to highlight China’s role in global trade and to explore the function of this medium as a vessel for the transmission of Chinese art, culture, and ideas.

From its historical pedigree and transcultural relevance to its material allure and anthropomorphic resonance, porcelain offers artists a unique way to move between the global and the intimate, the mass produced and the handmade, and the foreign and the domestic. By dissecting both the legacy of porcelain export and current networks of exchange, Burchmore ultimately demonstrates why this ceramic practice is crucial to understanding the development of Chinese contemporary art.

By: Alex Burchmore
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 998g
ISBN: 9780520390010
ISBN 10: 0520390016
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 11 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Porcelain Production 2. Porcelain Past 3. Porcelain Renaissance 4. Porcelain Clay Conclusion: A Porcelain Aesthetic? Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

Alex Burchmore is Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.