Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation by Christoph Noe
rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a survey of several up and coming young artists working today in Mainland China (this book is NOT about artists who have matured and attained international fame like Xu Bing or Cai Guo Qiang).

Going into this, I was actually caught by surprise, as I didn’t really know much about the contemporary Chinese art scene. But this book fully demonstrates that the contemporary Chinese art world is very much alive and well, despite outward appearances, and it is churning out a lot of work that is provocative, critical, daring, and full of naked people. (All the criteria of Good Art, clearly.)

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