Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Julia F. Andrews
• Kuiyi Shen
• Luchia Meihua Lee
• Alexandra Chang
• Michael FitzGerald
• Morgan Perkins
• Lilly Wei
• Jerome Silbergeld
• Eugenie Tsai
• Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
• Wu Hung
• Tom Finkelpearl

Titel

RESTORING THE AURA

Ist Teil von

• Zhang Hongtu, 2016, p.101

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A provocative aspect of Zhang Hongtu’s body of work is the way in which it deploys art history as a vehicle for artistic, social, institutional, economic, and political critique. Both playful and deadly serious, the artist often exploits the semiotic potential of style, shape, motif, or image to expose fissures between the ideal and the actual, the revered and the neglected. His “Soy Sauce Calligraphy” series, begun in 1995, is particularly sharp. One work from 1996, for example (Fig. 1), resembles in its general format a priceless fragment by Wang Xizhi (303–361 A.D.), China’s most venerated calligrapher, a sage