
Published online:
17 November 2016
Published in print:
31 October 2015
Online ISBN:
9780824868390
Print ISBN:
9780824840037
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Cite
Cui, Shuqin, 'Why Women’s Art? An Introduction', Gendered Bodies: Toward a Women's Visual Art in Contemporary China (Honolulu, HI , 2015; online edn, Hawai'i Scholarship Online, 17 Nov. 2016), https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824840037.003.0001, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the emergence of women's visual art in contemporary China and why the body, especially the female body, so often serves as a subject for exploration and a medium of aesthetic experiment. It is argued that bodily inscription through visual articulation involves a process of gendering that challenges artistic conventions as well as viewers' preconceptions. The chapter goes on to discuss issues such as the shifting conceptions of the term women's art or feminist art in the Chinese contemporary art field. This is followed by an overview of the subsequent chapters.
Subject
Asian Studies
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