From Heaven To Earth. Chinese Contemporary Painting-lorenzo Sassoli De Bianchi & Eleonora Battiston

Due to size and weight the Postage and Packaging is R45 From heaven to earth. Chinese contemporary painting
By Lorenzo Sassoli De Bianchi with Eleonora Battiston,  2008 NEW
 
•  Hardcover: 300 pages
•  Publisher: Damiani (October 1, 2008)
•  Language: English
•  ISBN-10: 8862080549
•  Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.8 x 1.1 inches
•  Shipping Weight: 5 pounds

Lorenzo Sassoli De Bianchi in collaboration with Eleonora Battiston.
The new book From heaven to earth. Chinese cotemporary painting can bee seen as the developement of contemporary Chinese painting some years after the very successfull publication of the book China which is now sold out
A distinguishing characteristic of contemporary Chinese art is a fusion between traditional Asian forms and references to Western art and pop culture. From Heaven to Earth features the work of 16 Chinese painters who exemplify this amalgam--Feng Zhengjie, Fu Hong, He Sen, Li Dafang, Li Songsong, Ma Liuming, Shi Xinning, Wang Xingwei, Wei Guangqing, Wu Yiming, Xie Nanxing, Yang Qian, Zeng Fanzhi, Zeng Hao, Zang Xiaotao and Zhou Tiehai--with full color images and text by art historian Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi. These artists evidence a precision derived from technical mastery, an inclination towards pop colors and a subtle irony, but their works defy categorization. The painters presented here do not share a precise common denominator. In fact, it is interesting to observe how each uses and interprets this genre in a most different way, thus making it very topical and loaded with countless possibilities.

Since the 1980s, Chinas economic and cultural opening to the rest of the world has rapidly put the country in touch with foreign markets. However, the ways in which such process has taken place are open to question and criticism, and what today has come to characterize the art of the Chinese giant is a mixture of age-old Eastern traditions and modern Western pop art. This is the common denominator in the works of the twenty artists included in this volume, which in line with other books on the subject already published by Damiani, namely China, Contemporary Painting (2005) and Fancy Dream (2007) aims to take stock of the new Chinese artistic production, thanks to the curatorial and scouting efforts of Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi (who also curated China). Ranging from Shi Xinnings historical paintings, where famous personalities belonging to different fields (from Mao-Tse-Tung to Audrey Hepburn, to name just a couple) are put side by side, to Zhou Tiehais camels, which replace the characters of famous Renaissance paintings, the works included in From heaven to earth blend classical painting and new technologies, and are torn between the romantic longing towards a Pre-Capitalist China and the vertiginous changes of the past few years. By assimilating Western art in a non-naïve way, these artists managed to create an aesthetics, which faithfully mirrors the fast socio-historical transformations of our times. artists: Chen Ke, Ding I, Fang Lijun, Feng Zengje, Hu Yming, Hue Minjun, Li Songsong, Ma Liuming, Shi Xinning, Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Xingwei, Yan Quian, Zeng Hao, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Xiaotao, Zhou Tiehai, Zhou Zixi, He Sen, Pu Jie.This is a new unread copy of this exquisite out of print bookDue to size and weight Postage and Packaging is R45