Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent CinemaChildren of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author’s experience in Beijing and New York—global cities with extensive access to an emergent transnational Chinese visual culture—this work situates selected artworks and films in the context of Chinese nationalism and post-socialism and against the background of the capitalist globalization that has so radically affected contemporary China. It juxtaposes and compares artists and independent filmmakers from a number of intertwined perspectives, particularly in their shared avant-garde postures and perceptions. |
Contents
Reading Chinese Avantgarde Art and Independent Cinema in Context | 1 |
Recreating Urban Spacein Avantgarde Art | 31 |
Chinas Lost Youth through the Lens of Independent Cinema | 89 |
In Quest of Meaningin a Spiritual Void Film and Video | 145 |
Chinese Artists and Filmmakers at the Beginning of a New Century | 205 |
Notes | 237 |
Chinese Glossary of Names Titles and Terms | 287 |
Filmography | 291 |
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