Gendered bodies : toward a women's visual art in contemporary China /

Gendered bodies : toward a women's visual art in contemporary China / Shuqin Cui.

"Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cui, Shuqin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Art, Chinese > 21st century.
Women artists > China.
Women in art.
Art, Chinese.
Women artists.
China.
Table of Contents:
  • Reimagining women's history and gendering historiography
  • The pregnant nude and photographic representation
  • The sexual subject : sexing the body, reversing the gaze
  • The body in abstraction : the world of flowers and crafts
  • Performing the body, expressing pain
  • Ephemeral bodies : object choice and material practice
  • From ruin aesthetics to urban narratives
  • Cyborg bodies : transgression across the real and the virtual.

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