Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
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Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art is the first English language journal to focus on contemporary Chinese art
and culture. Each bi-monthly issue features scholarly essays on topical issues, interviews with artists and curators, conference proceedings, and critical commentary on exhibitions and books. Yishu offers a platform for a wide range of voices who are living and telling the story of contemporary Chinese art from a diversity of perspectives, and who provide dialogue and debate around current visual and literary forms produced within what constitutes an expanded understanding of contemporary Chinese art.
Since its inauguration in May 2002, Yishu has raised its profile internationally to become one of the most respected journals devoted to contemporary Chinese art. Appealing to professionals in the art and academic fields, as well as art enthusiasts in general, Yishu is now the journal of record for the high quality coverage of issues and events pertinent to Chinese art today. Its high standard of critical writing by thinkers from around the world allows us to voice ideas that communicate across cultures.
Yishu is edited in Vancouver, Canada, published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and is distributed internationally. The publishing dates are January, March, May, July, September, and November.
In 2007, the publication took part in the Documenta 12 magazines
project, launched its first limited edition print by Xu Bing
, and has since offered limited edition prints and photographs by some of today’s most important Chinese artists, including Wang Guangyi
, Rong Rong & Inri. Each edition is commissioned by and entirely produced for Yishu. For more info, visit http://yishu-online.com/yishu-art-editions/.
In August 2010, the journal launched its archive web site http://yishu-online.com. All articles published since 2002 are now available online for research and purchase.
Chinese art
Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art...
and culture. Each bi-monthly issue features scholarly essays on topical issues, interviews with artists and curators, conference proceedings, and critical commentary on exhibitions and books. Yishu offers a platform for a wide range of voices who are living and telling the story of contemporary Chinese art from a diversity of perspectives, and who provide dialogue and debate around current visual and literary forms produced within what constitutes an expanded understanding of contemporary Chinese art.
Since its inauguration in May 2002, Yishu has raised its profile internationally to become one of the most respected journals devoted to contemporary Chinese art. Appealing to professionals in the art and academic fields, as well as art enthusiasts in general, Yishu is now the journal of record for the high quality coverage of issues and events pertinent to Chinese art today. Its high standard of critical writing by thinkers from around the world allows us to voice ideas that communicate across cultures.
Yishu is edited in Vancouver, Canada, published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and is distributed internationally. The publishing dates are January, March, May, July, September, and November.
In 2007, the publication took part in the Documenta 12 magazines
Documenta 12 magazines
Documenta 12 magazines was a central project of the 12th edition of the documenta exhibition, similar in dimensions and world outreach to the "platforms" of the previous edition...
project, launched its first limited edition print by Xu Bing
Xu Bing
Xu Bing is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990. He currently resides in Beijing.-Biography:...
, and has since offered limited edition prints and photographs by some of today’s most important Chinese artists, including Wang Guangyi
Wang Guangyi
Wang Guangyi , is a Chinese artist known for being the leader of the New Art Movement circles that erupted out of China after 1989 and for his Great Criticism series of paintings, using the images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution and contemporary brand names from western advertising...
, Rong Rong & Inri. Each edition is commissioned by and entirely produced for Yishu. For more info, visit http://yishu-online.com/yishu-art-editions/.
In August 2010, the journal launched its archive web site http://yishu-online.com. All articles published since 2002 are now available online for research and purchase.
Notable Contributors
- Defne Ayas
- Colin Chinnery
- Biljana Ciric
- Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker
- Monica Dematté
- Britta Erickson
- Fan Di'an
- Gao Minglu
- Paul Gladston
- Hou HanruHou HanruHou Hanru is a Chinese art curator and critic who lives in United States since 2006.He received degrees from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and moved from China in 1990. He lived 16 years in France before moving to America in 1990...
- Hu FangHu FangHu Fang/胡昉 is a fiction writer, art critic and curator. He is the Artistic Director of Vitamin Creative Space, an alternative art space in Guangzhou. Hu Fang studied at the Chinese Literature Department of Wuhan University. Hu Fang has published the "Sense Trilogy" novels...
- Maya Kóvskaya
- Carol Yinghua Lu
- Lu JieLü JieLü Jie is a Cantonese-speaking model who works in Mainland China and Hong Kong. She started her career as an advertisement and TV commercial model in 1998 and later moved into sitcoms and TV drama in early 2002 starring in TV drama series 网络情人 , 柴米新人类 She played roles in two Hong Kong box office...
- Victoria Lu
- Alexandra Munroe
- Hans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich Obrist is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London...
- Ou NingOu NingOu Ning ’s cultural practices encompass multiple disciplines. As an activist, he founded , an independent film and video organization and , an intellectual group who devote themselves to rural reconstruction movement in China; As an editor and graphic designer, he is known for his seminal book ; As...
- Uli Sigg
- Keith WallaceKeith WallaceKeith Wallace, M.S. Oenology and Viticulture is the wine columnist for The Daily Beast and also founded the Wine School of Philadelphia....
- Zheng Shengtian
Notable Artists Featured
- Huang Yong PingHuang Yong PingHuang Yong Ping is a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. Huang's work combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influence by the intellectual abstraction of Dada and by Chinese numerology traditions...
- Ai WeiweiAi WeiweiAi Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008...
- Xu BingXu BingXu Bing is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990. He currently resides in Beijing.-Biography:...
- Gao BrothersGao BrothersThe Gao Brothers, Zhen and Qiang, are two Chinese artists born in 1956 and 1962, in Jinan, in the province of Shandong located in the north east of China.Nowadays, they work in the artists district called 798 Art Zone in the Dashanzi Art District....
- Yang FudongYang FudongYang Fudong is a Chinese video artist and photographer. He began shooting his first film "Estranged Paradise" which was completed and premiered at Documenta XI in 2002. That year he also started shooting what was to become five-part cycle film "Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest", which was...
- Cai Guo-QiangCai Guo-QiangCai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese contemporary artist and curator.-Biography:Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1981 to 1985. Cai's work is scholarly and often politically charged...
- Cang XinCang XinCang Xin is an artist based in Beijing working in performance art and photography.Cang Xin was born in Heilongjiang Province, China....
- Feng MengboFeng MengboFeng Mengbo is a contemporary Chinese artist who works mainly in new media.Born in 1966 in province, in 1992, he graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou. He now lives and works in Beijing....
- Li WeiLi Wei (artist)Li Wei is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, Mirroring, and later on took off attention with his Falls series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground...
- Tsai Ming-liangTsai Ming-liangTsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
- Wang TiandeWang TiandeWang Tiande is a contemporary Chinese artist who focuses on calligraphy.-External links:**...
- Gu WendaGu WendaGu Wenda is a contemporary artist from China who lives and works in New York City. Much of his works play off of traditional Chinese calligraphy and poetry, and he is also known for his tendency to use human hair in his pieces....
- Guo Wei
- Miao XiaochunMiao XiaochunMiao Xiaochun is an artist and photographer based in Beijing.He is best known for his digital photographs, often assembled panoramas, of modern Chinese cityscapes. His signature element is the presence of "He", a figure in ancient Chinese costume...
- RongRong
- Shu YangShu YangShu Yang, born 1969, China, A Chinese painter, performance artist, photographer and curator. After studying at Xian Academy of Fine Art, he moved to Beijing where, in collaboration with Chinese artist Zhu Ming and Chen Jin, he set up the first performance art festival in China known as the Open Art...
- Wang GuangyiWang GuangyiWang Guangyi , is a Chinese artist known for being the leader of the New Art Movement circles that erupted out of China after 1989 and for his Great Criticism series of paintings, using the images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution and contemporary brand names from western advertising...
- Wei GuangqingWei GuangqingWei Guangqing is a contemporary Chinese painter. He is known most of all for his Red Wall and Made in China Series. Wei Guangqing was one of the main members of the “85’s New Wave Art Movement”. In the 1990s he became one of the most well-known 'political Pop artists'...
- Xing Danwen
- Yue MinjunYue MinjunYue Minjun is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing, China. He is best known for oil paintings depicting himself in various settings, frozen in laughter. He has also reproduced this signature image in sculpture, watercolor and prints...
- Zhan WangZhan WangZhan Wang is a noted contemporary Chinese sculptor.Born in 1962 in Beijing, China, Wang entered the Central Academy of the Arts as a sculpture major in 1983....
- Zhang DaliZhang DaliZhang Dali is an artist based in Beijing.Zhang trained at the Beijing Central Academy of Art & Design. After studying painting in China, he went to Italy, where he discovered graffiti art...
- Zhang HuanZhang HuanZhang Huan is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York. He made his BA at the He Nan University in Kai Feng and his MA at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing...
- Zhang XiaogangZhang XiaogangZhang Xiaogang is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Paintings in his Bloodline series are often monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s...
- Zhu YuZhu YuZhu Yu is a performance artist living in Beijing, China. His work deals with subjects of contemporary art.Yu's most famous piece of conceptual art, titled "Eating People," was performed at a Shanghai arts festival in 2000. It consisted of a series of photographs of him cooking and eating what is...