Zhang Huan

by Zhang, Huan; Dziewior, Yilmaz

• ISBN13: 9783775712200
• ISBN10: 3775712208
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Among the first Chinese artists to turn to performance art, Zhang Huan, a member of the "Beijing East Village" community, focused, in his early work, on submitting his naked body to extreme psychological and physical situations. Of late, theatricality and narrative have played increasing larger roles in his work, as in a 1997 piece in which he commissioned a group of farmworkers to climb into a fish pond near Beijing, thus creating an image representing the flooding of cities by masses from the country.

Table of Contents

Seeds of Hamburg	p. 7
Seeds of Hamburg	p. 15
Intensivierte Korperlichkeit	p. 22
Intensified Corporeality	p. 26
Der Korper als interkulturelles Medium der Kommunikation Zum spirituellen Hintergrund der Kunst von Zhang Huan	p. 30
The Body as Intercultural Medium of Communication On the Spiritual Background to the Art of Zhang Huan	p. 40
Abbildungen/Illustrations	p. 48
Dank des Herausgebers	p. 104
Editor's Acknowledgements	p. 106
Biografie/Biography	p. 111
Bibliografie (Auswahl)/Bibliography (Selection)	p. 116
Abgebildete Arbeiten/Illustrated Works	p. 118
Impressum/Colophon	p. 119
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