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New Export China Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art


Free Download Alex Burchmore, "New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art"
English | ISBN: 0520390016 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique genre of ceramic art to describe a framework for a broader art practice. Focusing on the work of four artists from the 1990s through the 2010s-Liu Jianhua, Ai Weiwei, Ah Xian, and Sin-ying Ho-Burchmore reveals how the materiality of ceramics has been used to highlight China’s role in global trade and to explore the function of this medium as a vessel for the transmission of Chinese art, culture, and ideas.

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