Pulping Herbert Read in a Washing-Machine
Nicholas Jose: Chinese art, 10 June 1999
Inside Out: New Chinese Art
edited by Gao Minglu.
California, 223 pp., £35, November 1998,0 520 21747 0 Show More
edited by Gao Minglu.
California, 223 pp., £35, November 1998,
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the 20th Century
by Wu Hung.
Chicago, 216 pp., £31.95, September 1999,0 935573 27 5 Show More
by Wu Hung.
Chicago, 216 pp., £31.95, September 1999,
A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of 20th-Century China
by Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen.
Abrams, 336 pp., $85, September 1998,0 8109 6909 2 Show More
by Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen.
Abrams, 336 pp., $85, September 1998,
“... the giant plaster and styrofoam ‘Goddess of Democracy’ that faced off the portrait of Chairman Mao over the Gate of Heavenly Peace and became an instant icon. The foreign press sometimes described it as a Chinese Statue of Liberty, a misrepresentation that was turned back on the students in official propaganda. The ... ”