Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art is the first English language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture. Each bi-monthly issue features scholarly essays on topical issues, interviews with artists and curators, conference proceedings, and critical commentary on exhibitions and books. Yishu offers a platform for a wide range of voices who are living and telling the story of contemporary Chinese art from a diversity of perspectives, and who provide dialogue and debate around current visual and literary forms produced within what constitutes an expanded understanding of contemporary Chinese art.
Inside this issue
Third Yishu Awards for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art
by Yishu Editorial
The Context of Contemporary Chinese Art in the New Century
by Lü Peng
Unauthorized Archive: Profane Illumination in Chen Chieh-jen’s Works
by Chou Yu-ling
Transexperiencing Chen Zhen’s Art
by Amjad Majid
Wang Qingsong’s Use of Buddhist Imagery (There Must Be a Buddha in a Place Like This)
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
The “Being and Nothingness” of Han Feng
by Voon Pow Bartlett
Curatorial Inquiries 12
by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Carol Yinghua Lu
The Art of Archiving: A Conversation with Karen Smith
by Elizabeth Parke
On Form and Flux: Change and Transformation in Chinese Art at the Istanbul Modern and the Hayward Gallery, London
by Stephanie Bailey
Li Kunwu: A Chinese Life
by Ryan Holmberg