Recenze Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art

Preface.- Part 1 - Critical Essays.- Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Polylogue between Differing International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art.- International Curatorial Practice and The Problematic (De-)Territorialization of the International Survey Show: Critical Reflections on the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism.- Avant-Garde\' Art in Reform-era China: Divergence, Reversal and the Persistence of (Subjective) Realism.- Deconstructing Gao Minglu.- Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit: Critical Reflections on the Conflating of Traditional Chinese Cultural Thought and Practice, and the Theory and Practice of Deconstruction in relation to the Theorizing of Contemporary Chinese Art.- Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao: a Stratagem towards a Post-Crisical Art.- The (Continuing) Story of Ai: From Tragedy to Farce .- The Cult of Ai: a Critical Response to Ai Weiwei\'s Comments on the Exhibition Art of Change: New Directions from China.- The Double Way: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Waning of Criticality.- Silence and Recuperation: the Pitiable sacrifice of the Artist Ai Weiwei .- Part 2 - Conversations.- Inside the Yellow Box: a Conversation with Johnson Chang.- Track Changes: a Conversation with Jia Jia.- Low Resolution: a Conversation with Zhang Peili.- Answering the Question: What is the Chinese Avant-Garde? - a Conversation with Zhai Zhenming.- Disjuncture - Tradition - Indirectness: a Conversation with Qiu Anxiong.- Collaboration as Struggle and Non-cooperation: A Conversation with Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.- Time, Life and Nature: A Conversation with Liang Shaoji.- A Conversation with He Sai Bang\' in Karen and Leon Wender (eds.).- Part 3 - Writing for Exhibitions.- Immersion: Song Ling\'s Early Development as an Artist in the People\'s Republic of China\' in Song Ling: a Retrospective .- Overlit Realm/Inner World: a Loosely Articulated Series of Notes on the Work of the Artist Lu Xinjian\' in Lu Xinjian City DNA IV.- Objectless Desire: a Loosely Articulated Series of Notes on Works by the Painter Tang Shu\' in Still Waters Run Deep: Tang Shu Works .- A Concise Series of Statements (that May or May not be) About the Work of the Artist Han Feng\' in Han Feng: Works .- The 14th Month (After the Great Flood): Towards an Alternative Reading of Yang Jiechang\'s Stranger than Paradise\' in Yang Jiechang: Tale of the 11th Day .- Something (and Nothing) Beyond the Text: An Essay on the Work of Song Kun\' in Robin Peckham (ed.) Fragments: Xijia River Lethe - catalogue for an exhibition of work by the artist Song Kun.