The Shiny Body of the Good Soldier: Identity and the Corporeal in Shen Jingdong’s Art

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ff.25.24465821.15" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ff.25.24465821.15</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ff.25.24465821.15" target="_blank" >10.5507/ff.25.24465821.15</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Shiny Body of the Good Soldier: Identity and the Corporeal in Shen Jingdong’s Art

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Like several other young Chinese artists between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s, Shen Jingdong experimented with conceptual and performance art before achieving critical and commercial success with paintings and sculptures. In Shen’s paintings since the early 2000s, the bodies of people and animals turn into shiny, smooth, and bright-colored “characters” inhabiting empty spaces. In recent portraits by Shen, the smooth surface of these bodies and faces is often damaged by wounds and violence—both represented in painting and physically enacted on the canvas. This chapter examines Shen Jingdong’s early conceptual and performance works in relation to the origins and transformations of his portrait paintings. Drawing also on Sinophone art criticism, intellectual history, and interviews with the artist in his studio, this chapter argues that Shen’s early conceptual and performance art not only prefigured the language and iconography of his portraits, but also introduced two key themes that underpin them, i.e., the transmutation of the body and the issue of personal identity. As a result, the fragile and increasingly tortured bodies of Shen’s characters come to represent extensions and evocations of the artist’s avantgardist experimentation. This study contributes in this way to our understanding of Shen’s art while shedding light on the legacy of post-Mao avant-gardist trends in contemporary Chinese art.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Shiny Body of the Good Soldier: Identity and the Corporeal in Shen Jingdong’s Art

Popis výsledku anglicky

Like several other young Chinese artists between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s, Shen Jingdong experimented with conceptual and performance art before achieving critical and commercial success with paintings and sculptures. In Shen’s paintings since the early 2000s, the bodies of people and animals turn into shiny, smooth, and bright-colored “characters” inhabiting empty spaces. In recent portraits by Shen, the smooth surface of these bodies and faces is often damaged by wounds and violence—both represented in painting and physically enacted on the canvas. This chapter examines Shen Jingdong’s early conceptual and performance works in relation to the origins and transformations of his portrait paintings. Drawing also on Sinophone art criticism, intellectual history, and interviews with the artist in his studio, this chapter argues that Shen’s early conceptual and performance art not only prefigured the language and iconography of his portraits, but also introduced two key themes that underpin them, i.e., the transmutation of the body and the issue of personal identity. As a result, the fragile and increasingly tortured bodies of Shen’s characters come to represent extensions and evocations of the artist’s avantgardist experimentation. This study contributes in this way to our understanding of Shen’s art while shedding light on the legacy of post-Mao avant-gardist trends in contemporary Chinese art.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH22_010%2F0002593" target="_blank" >EH22_010/0002593: MSCA Fellowships na Univerzitě Palackého v Olomouci I.</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia

ISBN

978-80-244-6582-1

Počet stran výsledku

27

Strana od-do

351-377

Počet stran knihy

466

Název nakladatele

Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Místo vydání

Olomouc

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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