Femininity in Asian Women Artists Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits

We see her from behind and the view she beholds. The artist explained that these modern cities are undifferentiated, there is no local culture, just the uniform spread of global modernism, and the teenager, like the new world citizen, is perched uncertainly and disillusioned. He has found that despite the all too apparent problems of making a living as a sex worker, prostitutes now come from all walks of life—college educated teachers and such like, because they can earn far more money by these activities, and thereby achieve a kind of economic freedom and power.

In addition they created a hybrid icon based on a big-breasted image of Minnie Mouse with the head of Mao to represent the evils of his administration. Lin Tianmiao, Gazing Back - procreating outdoor , Looking at these works, it seems clear that the function of the image of women in Chinese art has substantially changed since it first became the embodiment of desire at the end of the 19 th century, if not somewhat earlier, when Confucian proscription against the sensual portray of women weakened.

By the mid th century the image of women reflected the artistic agenda determined by the state to demonstrate the success of their social policies. Though they did indeed once hold up the sky, their role in society seems diminished; few women have achieved ascendance in business or politics, and their numbers are decreasing, thanks to the policy of selective abortion. Their situation is reflected in the limited role they play in the art world—whether exhibiting in the upper echelons of museums and galleries or in running the various art institutions.

He Chengyao, 99 Needles C Print of performance. An inquiry into the portrayal of women by women reveals more down to earth renderings of the female body, in comparison to the uniformly glamorous images made by male artists.

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These also reveal female artists engagement in the struggle of self-investigation through the means of the self-portrait. Penguin Books, , p. See The Sage and the Second Sex: For a discussion of proper Confucian narrative themes in China, see Julia K. Murray, Mirror of Morality: Chinese Women Artists , edited by Marsha Weidner et al. Indianapolis Museum of Art, , pp. Yale University Press, see pp. If the Shoe Fits.

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She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literature Tradition,. Brooklyn Museum of Art. New Chinese Art ,. The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong ,. Asian American Artists and Abstraction , Curator: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

Chinese Women Artists , Curator: Museum of Modern Art. Contemporary Works on Paper ,. Sites of Chinatown ,. Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Contemporary Art in Asia , Curator: Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America ,. Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art ,.

Japanese Art After Scream Against the Sky , Curator: Alexandra Munroe, Guggenheim Museum.

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The Whitney Biennial is considered one of the premier surveys of American art. Since it is one of the long-standing periodical exhibitions of contemporary art, one could argue that its history can be used as an indicator for trends in the visual arts. The Biennial marked a significant inclusion of Asian and Asian American artists following their total exclusion in the previous exhibition in During the last decade we can also identify a fall in the inclusion of Asian American artists and a rise of Asian artists.

A complete breakdown of individual artists can be found in Appendix 1. The representation of Asian and Asian American artists in New York galleries has grown exponentially. As evident below in Graph 3, the number of Asian and Asian American artists was calculated at in compared to in The shift marks a gradual rise of representation over the last ten years.

Galleries such as Max Protetch, Jack Tilton and Deitch Projects should be noted as taking the lead in exhibiting a number of Chinese artists in the mids. In addition to the actual rise in number of Asian and Asian American artists represented by galleries, we have also seen the establishment of galleries that focus exclusively on Asian contemporary art. It is interesting to note that the majority of these galleries have a specific focus on South Asian, Vietnamese and Chinese art.

Another development is the evolution of galleries that once focused exclusively on traditional art toward the inclusion of contemporary art. Notable amongst these galleries are China , established in and Kaikodo established in Asian Contemporary Art Galleries. The infrastructure of auction houses dictates in some ways the method of gathering information about Asian contemporary art since the sales are divided into Chinese art, Japanese art, Korean art, Indian and Southeast Asian art, contemporary art, and photography which has been included in the assessment since some of the most prominent Asian artists practice in this medium.

High sales of Chinese contemporary art have been recorded over the past year, but these have been held in Hong Kong with the other Asian sales rather than in New York. From the findings in Graph 4, Indian and Southeast Asian works have been subject to the most activity at auctions in New York. Interestingly, these artists are all Japanese reflecting to some extent the dominance of Japanese artists in assessments of Asian contemporary art in New York.

Top 10 Highest Recorded Sales of Works. The following list of top ten sales of works by Asian artists is calculated on the actual and estimated sale price of the art work. Once again this list is dominated by Japanese artists but includes Korean and South Asian artists. Although this finding is consistent with the top five list of artists as Japanese, it does conflict with the records of sales indicated in Graph 4, which shows that the greatest number of auctions are for South Asian art. One explanation for this is that a number of the works that received the highest prices were in the contemporary sales rather than exclusively Asian sales.

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Oil, acrylic, fiberglass, 88 x 41 x 48 inches x x cm. Mother Pounding Grain, Acrylic on canvas, triptych Set of three photographs.

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