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Podcast: New Books in East Asian Studies
Episode: Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Description: In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking to Peggy Wang about her new book, The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art (Minnesota University Press, 2021). In the book, Wang asks readers to reconsider the term âglobalâ and âworldâ in relation to the (often simplistically interpreted) artistic projects of some of the most famous Chinese artists of the postsocialist period. A meticulously researched chapter is devoted to: Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Sui Jianguo, Zhang Peili, and Lin Tianmiao. In each case, Wang argues that their oeuvres are critical projects that are shaped by and comment upon artistsâ and art criticsâ sel...