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Imagery and Appropriation in Chinese Contemporary Art
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Maddie Boucher
ABSTRACT
The works of three contemporary Chinese artists, Zhang Hongtu (张宏图), Sheng Qi (盛齐) and Wang Guangyi (王广义), represent diverse approaches to many of the same stylistic and conceptual elements that American Pop art shares, and utilize a vocabulary that is inherently adapted to social and political critique. These artists mobilize appropriated imagery to subvert and reinvent the functions of imagery, iconography and authorship. Ultimately, this article will examine how artists use social critique as a process of self-identification, and how these artists confront self-expression in their work.
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