In such a lonely history, what on earth are we afraid of?: On attempts to imagine being in the past as being in the present and being in the future. (1st September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ding, Liu; Lu, Carol Yinghua
• Is Part Of: Journal of contemporary Chinese art. Volume 1:Number 2/3(2014)
• Page Start: 289
• Page End: 296
• Publication Date: 2014-09-01
• Subjects: Art, Chinese -- Periodicals; Art, Modern Periodicals -- 20th century -- China; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- China -- Periodicals; 709.51
• DOI: 10.1386/jcca.1.2-2.289_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2051-7041

Abstract

This article presents the text of a paper given by the curator and writer Carol Yinghua Lu and the artist and writer Liu Ding at Shadows: Attempts at Re-examination and Re-evaluation of Socialist Realism in the Practice and Discourse of Art in China from 1950 to the Present, a seminar held at Tate Modern in London on 4 December 2013. The seminar, which was staged as part of Lu's residence as the first Visiting Fellow at the Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific in 2013, was supported by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary East-Asian Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. Lu and Liu's paper, which is published without significant editorial intervention, discusses the pair's struggle to develop a critical, research-led history of contemporary art in China in the face of significant public criticism from established art historians and critics.