| Volume 6, Number 1, January 2009 |
A Study of Yue Minjun’s and
Edouard Manet’s Executions
by 锺子祺 Martin Chung Chi-Kei
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"Return" and "Transcendence" in Dialogues
by 牛竞凡 Niu Jingfan |
IN transcultural encounters, with all their complexities and contradictions, one observable pattern perhaps is that we tend to see only what we want to see in each other and take only what is convenient.
Very recently, contemporary Chinese paintings have been attracting great attention, grabbing newspaper headlines with record auction prices.(3) Artists like Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi and Liu Xiaodong have become darlings of art galleries and art collectors. Works of theirs can fetch millions of dollars in no time. In 2007, Liu’s New Migrants of Three Gorges Dam was sold for US$2.7 million and Yue’s The Pope raked in about US$4.3 million. In April this year, Zhang’s Bloodline: The Big Family No. 3 obtained more than US$6 million.(4)
Even the Chinese government, it is said, has recognized the practical link of the art industry to GDP growth, with Beijing authorities advertising an art district in the city as a must-see destination...
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CHENG Baoyi has acquired a very prestigious position in France: his poetry has been published in Gallimard’s poetry series, thus enjoying the reputation as a classic in contemporary French poetry; his critical views on paintings and poems have exerted immense influence upon contemporary painters and poets in France; he has been awarded some important prizes in the field of French literature upon the strength of the precision and elegance of the French language he displays. In June 2002, he was elected to the ‘Académie française’, thus becoming one of “the forty immortals”, which has been one of the focuses of attention in the Chinese and French cultural history.
Cheng Baoyi’s Journey Between the Chinese
and French Cultures
In his two names, the first being Cheng Baoyi, which was in reality changed from Cheng Jixian, a name with some Confucian flavour, and the second being François Cheng, a French name he adopted for himself, were imprinted his life ideal, spiritual pursuit and notions of creative activities...
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The Sorcerer’s
Apprentices
—A Global Tale
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