Screen LibraryYue Minjun : l'ombre du fou rire /
"Born in 1962 in the city of Daqing in Heilongjiang Province in China, Yue Minjun is an icon of contemporary Chinese painting. Considered one of the protagonists of "Cynical Realism," an art movement that emerged after the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he began d...
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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain ; Distributed in the US by Thames & Hudson Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Paris : New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012]. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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"Born in 1962 in the city of Daqing in Heilongjiang Province in China, Yue Minjun is an icon of contemporary Chinese painting. Considered one of the protagonists of "Cynical Realism," an art movement that emerged after the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he began developing his own distinctive iconography in the 1990s, which combines pictorial and historical references. Yue Minjun's paintings are immediately recognizable: they are painted in bright colors on large canvases and peopled almost exclusively by laughing male figures, all which are self-portraits either presented as a single figure or replicated over and over again to form a battalion of grinning frozen-faced clones. These figures appear in grotesque poses or in mock execution scenes, creating an atmosphere of tension that oscillates between the lighthearted and the outrageous, the mundane and the excessive, offering an often implicit parody of contemporary Chinese society."--Publisher description. |
| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, Nov. 14, 2012-March 17, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 249). |
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9782869250994 2869250991 9780500970485 0500970483 |
| Index Number: | N7349 |
| CLC: | J221.8-28 |
| Call Number: | WF/J221.8-28/Y947 |
| Contents: | D'un sujet impossible = No possible subject / François Jullien -- Entretien avec Yue Minjun = Interview with Yue Minjun / Shen Zhong -- Les aveux du rire = Confessions of laughter / Ouyang Jianghe -- Dessins = Drawings : 1991-2008 -- Peintures = Paintings : 1991-2012. |