Gendered Bodies: Toward a Women's Visual Art in Contemporary China

by Shuqin Cui

Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824840038
• ISBN13: 9780824840037
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"