Century Woman Exhibit Catalogue
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1998
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Century Woman Exhibit Catalogue
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Date Created:
1998
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In 1998, Century Woman at Beijing’s National Art Museum showcased work by seventy Chinese women under the rubric of "women’s art." The flurry of activity following the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, hosted in Beijing in 1995, brought recognition to female artists marginalized by post-1989 international art market trends, but the institutionalization of nüxing yishu ("women's art" or "feminine art") also led to domesticating containment. Jia Fangzhou, curator of Century Woman, delineated in his preface to the exhibit catalogue the "essential characteristics of women’s art," including among them childlike fantasy; apathy toward politics, history, and philosophy; and general disinterest in the male world.
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Introduction, Page 19
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