Monday Eye Candy: Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Happy Chinese New Year! To celebrate the year of the dragon, today's eye candy comes from Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art by Gao Minglu, which contains 150 color illustrations and 173 black-and-white illustrations. Click on each image to enlarge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 8.9

Wang Guangyi, Great Castigation Series: Coca-Cola, 1991.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 7.33

Song Ling, Meaningless Choice No. 1, 1987.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 7.24

Pool Society, The Travelers in a Green Space No. 2, 1986.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5.7

Geng Jianyi, Two People under the Lamplight, 1985.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5.4

Li Guijun, Studio, 1985.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 4.2

Gao Minglu, the principal curator, reading his declaration, "Protest," in front of the public in the plaza of the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, February 5, 2009. Photograph provided by Yang Zhilin.