False become true: Christie's catalogue of Zhang Hongtu
By analyzing the series Christie’s Catalogue Project by the artist Zhang Hongtu, this essay traces relationships between: Cultural heritance, national identity, fakeness, popular culture and legitimacy of power structures, within contemporary China. Contemporary art creates assemblies of meaning...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Colima
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Portes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico |
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| Online Access: | http://revistasacademicas.ucol.mx/index.php/portes/article/view/235 |
| Summary: | By analyzing the series Christie’s Catalogue Project by the artist Zhang Hongtu, this essay traces relationships between: Cultural heritance, national identity, fakeness, popular culture and legitimacy of power structures, within contemporary China. Contemporary art creates assemblies of meanings related to its time, sometimes relating the present with history, high with vernacular culture, soft power with the construction of collective memory. This essay aims to reconstruct with words, through textual and visual analysis, those visual assemblies. |
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| ISSN: | 1870-6800 |