Contribution to Book
Genesis of the Issue of Culture: The Cultural Fever and Avant-Garde of the 1980s
Odyssey of Culture: Wenda Gu and His Art
(2015)
Abstract
It is reasonable to say that we may read cultural meaning from most art works directly or indirectly, since art is always a product of a specific cultural context . It is different, however, to have cultural meaning in an artwork and to concentrate cultural issues in his/her art intentionally by the artist. When the former may focus on any issues beyond cultural concern , the latter may consider cultural issues pivotal and critical and comment on the issue one way or another. In other words, cultural meaning or message might or might not be read from the art in the first case, since the artist might or might not be interested in such issues; while in the second case, the artist knowingly injects his cultural concern into his art or comments on cultural issue in his works, so that the reading of a cultural meaning from such works would be “natural.”
Publication Date
January 1, 2015
Publisher
Springer
Series
Chinese Contemporary Art Series
ISBN
9783662454114
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-45411-4_2
Citation Information
Yan Zhou. "Genesis of the Issue of Culture: The Cultural Fever and Avant-Garde of the 1980s" Berlin, HeidelbergOdyssey of Culture: Wenda Gu and His Art (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yan_zhou/24/