China’s Avant Garde Movement of the 1980s

ZHOU Yan has been both a contributor to and a critic of the avant-garde movement in China. In this lecture, ZHOU Yan presents how the avant-garde movement dramatically reshaped the topography of contemporary Chinese art in the 1980s. He examines the evolution of China’s avant-garde movement from the end of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s to 1989-the year of both the monumental China/Avant-Garde exhibition and the Tiananmen Incident.
ZHOU Yan is an art critic with a Ph.D. in art history from Ohio State University. He also holds an MA in art history (Central Academy of Fine Arts) and BA in philosophy (Sun Yat-sen University), both from China. He is the co-author of A History of Chinese Contemporary Art: 1985-1986 (1991, Chinese) and the author of Cultural Odyssey: Wenda Gu and His Art (2015, English). He was a co-organizer of the China/Avant-Garde exhibition in Beijing (1989), and currently he is an adjunct professor at art history at Kenyon College where he teaches Chinese art. His new book, A History of Contemporary Chinese Art: 1949-Present was published in July.

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