Staging Art and Chineseness: The Politics of TRANS/Nationalism and Global Expositions

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Jane Chin Davidson

Staging Art and Chineseness

The Politics of TRANS/Nationalism and Global Expositions

Jane Chin Davidson

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Manchester University Press
02 January 2020

Performance art; Globalization; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Series: Rethinking Art's Histories

This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways in which cultural objects are attributed to the artist's residency, homeland or citizenship rather than cultural tradition, style or practice. Acknowledging historical definitions of Chineseness, including the orientalist assumptions of the past and the cultural-mixing of the present, the book's case studies address the paradoxes and contradictions of representation. An analysis of the historical matrix of global expositions reveals the structural connections among art, culture, capital and nation. -- .

By: Jane Chin Davidson
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781526139788
ISBN 10: 1526139782
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 January 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jane Chin Davidson is Associate Professor of Art History and Contemporary Global Art at California State University, San Bernardino -- .

Reviews for Staging Art and Chineseness: The Politics of TRANS/Nationalism and Global Expositions

Chin Davidson’s Staging Art and Chineseness offers an opportunity to challenge the universalizing claims of Western theories and to queer popular scholarly stereotypes about ‘Chineseness’ as a theoretical problem and the fetishization of contemporary China as an ‘empire’. JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE -- .