... iconography evolved into soft sculpture objects in cloth and paper. Their arrested ephemerality decenters the human subject, drawing attention to haunting absences in conventional stories of art, feminism, and nation. In comparison with the monumental work of Ai Weiwei 艾未未, who also created pieces in response...

... or weaving can become a process of art making. Li Xiuqin s large- scale rock and wood sculptures, The Journey of Life (1997) and The Gate of Life (1998), offer a vision of life through the form and substance of the materials dominating the site. Shi Hui s soft sculpture series, Nest, Chains, and Knots (1995...

...Meiling Cheng This article takes an ecological approach to Beijing-based artist Yin Xiuzhen’s cross-media artworks, which comprise installations, performances, and inhabitable sculptures. Yin’s creative outputs—from her earliest installations that bemoan the vanishing old Beijing, through her...

... Restraint in 4 DR is part of an installation that also includes sculpture, drawing, and lm. The entire body of work was rst exhibited in summer in Kanazawa, Japan, at the st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, where...

... with the clothes hanging on the racks. In this very colorful setting, we spent three hours talking about fashion, watching videotapes of her newest collections, and touching and appraising the shade, weight, design, and softness of various fabrics and dresses...

... subjects of painting and sculpture. This facilitated her inclusion in the 1997 group show Another Long March: Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties in the Netherlands. Her escalating exposure through both of these venues China shows and those dedicated specifically to Chinese women...

..., 2014, a photograph showing a pair of public sculptures in Seoul went viral on web portals (Jeong 2014 ). They were two large glass receptacles full of slightly more than a thousand human mandibles, each marked with its previous owner's name, on display in the lobby of a Gangnam plastic surgery clinic...

...man) achieved in the soft, voluptuous form of the nude Maja.56 If art historians today focus on European referents for Bathhouse Atten- dant, contemporaneous reviewers concentrated on Bakusen’s interest in Japan’s...

... world, where China shares roots with “peripheries” such as Taiwan and Tibet and draws its soft power from a collectively created yet mystical and singular identity. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Buddhist modernism global avant‐garde art geopolitics of China...

... to problems of a women s body in the social space, such as sexual harass- ment in contemporary society and comfort women from WWII. Her video works are made as if she were doing sculpture and animation, manifesting the delicacy of technique or shouzuo zai aesthetics she noted in her ear- lier writings...

... in specialty glasses adorned with fruit and colorful umbrellas while listening to Vietnamese soft rock in an open- air patio designed to imitate the natural environment, with water- falls, rock gardens, “ethnic” sculptures, and exotic owers and trees...

... visits a strange, art gallery-like display room of what seems to be a robotics technology center. A giant white statue of two fighting boxers dominates this bright, airy space. The pugilistic sculpture has soft contours, the combatants...

... viewers with the aesthetic virtuosity of his artists. Rather, in 2005 the obsessions of otaku (“geek”) subculture and everyday girl fantasies, the pop and the neopop, anime and manga, toys and sculpture (and, indeed, much more) were...

... 46 1 the day. For elite, white mainlanders Hawaiians seemed to offer an alluring encounter with paradisical exoticism, a nonthreatening soft primitivism- primitive, yes, but delightfully SO? The Beginnings of Organized Tourism...

...). These sculptures are fac- similes of historical monuments with no concern for originality (they are “ready-­made antiques and Ai Weiwei insists that this market has actu- ally preserved traditions of craftsmanship that otherwise would be lost...

..., “is proper to reflection. Anyone who has devoted energy to thinking will impart a sculptural terseness to the products of his thought.” Jochmann’s syntax, one might say, bears the marks of the chisel. (2006: 361...

... “Past” (fig. 16). Ancient stupas, architectural details, Buddhist sculpture, and other cultural objects are exhibited in lavender frames of different sizes that simulate the relative size of wall displays as they recede in the white space...