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Title:
"Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition" in China
Creator (role):
Date Created:
2000-2001
Original Format:
Original Material:
Original Measurements:
100 cm x 100 cm
Description:
Shi Xinning’s "Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition" in China juxtaposes iconic symbols of the avant-garde of Western art and Chinese socialism. In a fictional encounter of "impossible reality"—an altered reproduction of an image taken at an official visit to an industrial exhibition by one of Mao Zedong’s official photographers—Shi depicts the chairman intently inspecting Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. Shi makes these two avant-garde visions proximal. His documentary style of painting, based on his training in socialist realism at Shenyang’s Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, mimics the way artists under Mao reworked historical paintings in response to political winds.
Book Reference:
Chapter 1, Figure 2, Page 49
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Cultural Context:
Is Format Of:
Shu Yang, Zhongguo yingxiang huihua [China's photographic painting] (Hong Kong: Xianggang wenhua Zhongguo chubanshe, 2004), 68.
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