Outside in : Chinese x American x contemporary x art

Silbergeld, Jerome. (Author). Liu, Cary Y. (Cary Yee-Wei), 1955- (Added Author). Ching, Dora C. Y. (Added Author). Wishart, Kim. (Added Author). Seiffert, Gregory. (Added Author). Lim, Michelle. (Added Author). Princeton University. Art Museum. (Added Author). P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art. (Added Author).

Summary: "The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thought-provoking book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available - with the majority of attention having been given to "avant-garde," "experimental," or politically charged art. Outside In discusses contemporary Chinese art in a far wider range of styles and subject matter and substantially expands on our understanding of this work." "The book features six artists - Arnold Chang, Vannessa Tran, Michael Cherney, Zhi Lin, Liu Dan, and Zhang Hongtu - all of whom are American citizens, yet widely diverse in age and experience as well as geographical and ethnic origins. In addition to extensive personal interviews and artists' statements, there are essays that challenge the categorization of art into such focused genres as "Chinese," "contemporary," and "American," and reexamine the factors that shape the development of "Chinese art" in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300122084 (hbk.)
ISBN: 030012208X (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
303 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title page on p. [101]. Published on the occasion of the exhibitions organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum, March 5-June 7, 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-293) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Chinese art, made-in-America: an encounter with geography, ethnicity, contemporaneity, and cultural Chineseness / Jerome Silbergeld -- In the mischievous role of naturalists: classifying the Chineseness in contemporary art / Cary Y. Liu -- Arnold Chang. Artist's statement ; The great tradition / Jerome Silbergeld ; Out of bounds: painting the tradition in contemporary Chinese art / Kim Wishart -- Vannessa Tran. Artist's statement ; The art of seclusion / Jerome Silbergeld ; Vannessa Tran's meditative glimpse / Gregory Seiffert -- Michael Cherney. Artist's statement ; Giving back to the Chinese tradition / Jerome Silbergeld ; Beyond the visible, within the frame / Jerome Silbergeld -- Zhi Lin. Artist's statement ; The artist as witness / Jerome Silbergeld ; Violence unseen: Zhi Lin's depiction of suffering and spectacle / Gregory Seiffert -- Liu Dan. Artist's statement ; What realism, which beauty? / Jerome Silbergeld ; Portrait of an artist / Michelle Lim -- Zhang Hongtu. Artist's statement ; An outsider's outsider comes in / Jerome Silbergeld ; Cultural iconography as style / Michelle Lim -- Epilogue: a multiplicity of meanings / Dora C.Y. Ching.