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System and Style in the Practice of Chinese Contemporary Art: the Disappearing Exterior?

Volume 1, Number 2, August 2002
by John Clark


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John Clark discusses the system and style in the practice of Chinese contemporary art. The early twenty-first century forms a particularly opportune moment to look back in very broad terms at the inter-relation between different art discourses in China. These discourses have often been driven by two kinds of distinct but related historicist motivations: Firstly, there are those of “national” or “Maoist” “revolutionism”. Secondly, there are those of economic and cultural “developmentalism”. Underlying these first two historical discourses have been two others: that of the “public” and that of the “private,” which only now have been allowed a greater prominence.


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John Clark, style, system, art practice, contemporary Chinese art, revolutionism, developmentalisim, public, private, Contemporary Chinese Art in the International Arena, British Museum, London