Chinese Painting from No Name to Abstraction

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Author: Wei, ZhangThe No Name and the Beijing abstractionists are at the heart of Ralf Laier’s collection, presented here for the first time. The group of underground artists forme d during the Cultural Revolution and defied the Chinese government’s official sponsorship of Socialist Realism, subversively painting landscapes and scenes of everyday life instead. In this homage to the two movements, Laier discusses his passion for their art and his personal encounters with the artists.The No Name group comprised a circle of underground artists – including Zhang Wei, Ma Kelu, Li Shan and Zheng Ziyan – that formed during the Cultural Revolution. After the group’s breakthrough exhibition in 1979, Zhang and Ma soon pivoted toward abstraction alongside a new cohort of artists, such as Feng Guodong, Qin Yufen and Zhu Jinshi, incorporating Chinese ink painting into their minimalist colour planes and gestural abstractions. The volume also features essays by art historians Kuiyi Shen and Paul Moorhouse, and an appendix providing biographies and quotes from the artists.ISBN 9783947127320. Holzwarth Publications. hb. 220 pages. 148 colour, 6 b/w ills. 30 x 24 cm.available Show more