Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 The Art for the City: Zhong Biao
1 The Spectacular Future
2 Urban Public Images
3 The City and China’s Urban Millennium
4 The Conception and Approach of the Book
2 From the Countryside to the City
1 Unity with Nature, Countryside, and Tradition
2 From the Countryside to the City
3 Urban Development in Contemporary China
4 Making Art in Urban China
3 De/Constructing Urbanization: Weng Fen, Chen Qiulin, and Han Bing
1 Constructing the Image of the City
2 Urbanization Deconstructed
3 Conceptualizing Demolition
4 The Temporary Free Territory
4 From Landscape to Urbanscape: Yang Yongliang
1 Artificial Wonderland and Urban Dystopia
2 The Making of Phantom Landscape
3 Bordering Heaven and Hell
4 Digital Technology and the Reign of Artificiality
5 Disappearing Bodies: Liu Bolin
1 Hiding in the City
2 The Emergence of the “Invisible Body”
3 Performing to Reveal
4 The Proliferation of “Little Men”
6 The Street at Day and Night: Wang Fenghua and Liu Xintao
1 Living on the Surface
2 Under the Bright Daylight
3 The Collapsing Night
4 Trash and Urban Disparity
7 Conclusion
Index