Critical Writing Index

Capturing Today's Chinese Culture in Transition: What does a makeover of 5,000 years of culture feel like? Ask China, because that's what's happening there.

by Holland Cotter

The New York Times, June 11 Spring, 2004

Holland Cotter provides a historical look at the evolution of Chinese art since Mao Zedong's death in 1976 and the subsequent expansion of Chinese - Western contact. Cotter provides a lengthy list of progressive Chinese artists who are showing their work in the New York exhibition, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China.

ITEM 2004.023 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Ma Liuming

Gao Qiang

Sheng Qi

Gao Zhen

Hai Bo

Tianyuan Space StationLi Tianyuan

Yang Yong

Rong Rong

Huang Yan

Performing the SelfCao Fei

Lin Tianmiao

Night Revels of Han XizaiWang Qingsong

Wang Jinsong

Zhang Dali

Song Dong

Xing Danwen

Xiong Wenyun

Zheng Guogu

Bai Yilou

The ChineseLiu Zheng

Xu Zhen

Wang Jianwei