Shifting the Ground: Rethinking Chinese Art

C. Roberts, Mark Erdmann, Genevieve Trail
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This special open-call issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) presents papers that examine issues relating to art of the Greater China region encompassing mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as Chinese diasporas. Here, Greater China is understood as an active cultural space defined by historical, multi-directional flows of people and ideas rather than territorial boundaries, with Chinese diaspora connecting China to all parts of the world. The aim in encouraging writers to think about the Greater China cultural space is to recover forgotten or marginalised histories and suggest alternatives to monolithic national narratives in order to reconfigure the field of Chinese art history in more complex and connected ways. The writers here are rethinking the frameworks that inform art history, notably the way both art and history are conceptualised, its periodisation, its pedagogical assumptions, and notions of linear progress informed by political events emanating from dominant sources of power. As editors we posed the following questions: What are the limitations of and gaps in the current art historical record? What are the discrepancies and interventions that are generally not acknowledged? How do extant histories of Chinese art intersect with world art history? What is the contribution of art produced in Greater China and its diasporas to modern and contemporary international art? To what extent can new or reconsidered case studies of art produced in this cultural space point to alternative ways to think about the mobility of artists, ideas, and artworks and the writing of art history today? These questions and the ideas that they raise originated from issue editor Claire Roberts’ Australian Research Council Future Fellowship ‘Reconfiguring the World: China. Art. Agency. 1900s to Now’ (FT140100743) based in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. This fellowship was conceived in 2013 to consider the international context of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Over the past eight years the idea of ‘Reconfiguring the world’ through the agency of artists and art works has become more urgent and relevant, and in ways that were difficult to anticipate back in 2013. Today, the world community faces serious challenges arising from geo-political power shifts, the ongoing scourge of
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《澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志》(ANZJA)的这期公开特刊介绍了与大中华地区艺术相关的论文,包括中国大陆、香港和台湾以及中国侨民。在这里,大中华区被理解为一个活跃的文化空间,由历史、多方向的人员和思想流动而非领土边界定义,散居海外的华人将中国与世界各地连接起来。鼓励作家思考大中华文化空间的目的是恢复被遗忘或边缘化的历史,并提出替代单一民族叙事的方案,以更复杂、更紧密的方式重新配置中国艺术史领域。这里的作者正在重新思考艺术史的框架,特别是艺术和历史的概念化方式、分期、教学假设,以及由主要权力来源产生的政治事件所产生的线性进步概念。作为编辑,我们提出了以下问题:当前艺术历史记录的局限性和差距是什么?哪些差异和干预措施通常没有得到承认?中国现存艺术史与世界艺术史是如何交叉的?大中华地区及其散居地的艺术对现当代国际艺术有何贡献?在这个文化空间中产生的新的或重新思考的艺术案例研究,在多大程度上可以指向思考艺术家、思想和艺术品的流动性以及当今艺术史写作的替代方式?这些问题和他们提出的想法源于问题编辑克莱尔·罗伯茨的澳大利亚研究委员会未来奖学金“重构世界:中国”。艺术代理。1900年代至今”(FT140100743),总部设在墨尔本大学文化与传播学院。该奖学金于2013年设立,旨在考虑中国现当代艺术的国际背景。在过去的八年里,通过艺术家和艺术作品的代理来“重构世界”的想法变得更加紧迫和相关,其方式在2013年很难预料。今天,国际社会面临着地缘政治权力转移带来的严重挑战
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