History of Contemporary Chinese Art

Yan Zhou has been an activist, critic and historian of Chinese contemporary art for three decades, having taught art theory and art history at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China in the 1980s and afterward, at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA, with guest teaching stints at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, in addition to lectures given in more than thirty art schools, colleges, universities and museums in China and USA. He has widely published on the topic of contemporary Chinese art, including Journey of Culture: Wenda Gu and His Art (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015),  A History of Chinese Contemporary Art: 1985-1986 (In Chinese, co-author, Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 1991) and “Zhang Jianjun: Visual Inquiry into Existence and Temporality” (bilingual, Zhang Jianjun, exhibition catalogue, Shanghai, 2012).

• Abstract.- Acknowledgments.- List of Figures.- Introduction.- Visual Utopia: Art in the Seventeen-Years (1949-1966).- Revolutionary Action: Art in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).- Truth, Virtue and Beauty: Art in the Post-Cultural Revolution.- Idealism and New Utopia: Avant-Garde Movement (1985-1989).- Art under Impact of Globalization (1990-1999).- Institutionalization of Contemporary Art (2000-2015).- Chronicle of Events 1949 – 2015.- Bibliography.- Abbreviation of Institutions and Title of Periodicals.- Chinese glossary (people’s names and art terms).- Index.