Artistic and Intellectual Practices in Contemporary China

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade. The book elevates a chorus of voices from domestic and international intellectuals, artists, curators, and historians in a dialogue that reframes Chinese art from 1949 to the present. Part I offers critical academic complications of the story of Chinese art from the 1950s to the present as one singularly defined and stifled by