Winnie Wong is a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and Shanghai.
In the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. To write about life and work in Dafen, Winnie Wong infiltrated this world, investigating the claims of conceptual artists who made projects there; working as a dealer; apprenticing as a painter; surveying merchants in Europe, Asia, and America; establishing relationships with local leaders; and organizing a conceptual art show for the Shanghai World Expo. The result is Van Gogh on Demand, a fascinating book about a little-known aspect of the global art world - one that sheds surprising light on our understandings of art, artists, and individual genius. Confronting difficult questions about the definition of art, the ownership of an image, and the meaning of imitation and appropriation, Wong shows how a plethora of artistic practices joins Chinese migrant workers, propaganda makers, and international artists together in a global supply chain of art and creativity. She examines how Berlin-based conceptual artist Christian Jankowski, who collaborated with Dafen's painters to reimagine the Dafen Art Museum, unwittingly appropriated a photojournalist's intellectual property. She explores how Zhang Huan, a radical performance artist from Beijing's East Village, prompted propaganda makers to heroize the female artists of Dafen village. Through these cases, Wong shows how Dafen's workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art. Providing a valuable account of art practices in a period of profound global cultural shifts and an ascendant China, Van Gogh on Demand is a rich and detailed look at the implications of a world that can offer countless copies of everything that has ever been called "art."
發表於2024-11-22
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Wong’s Van Gogh on Demand unveils a vivid story of the art world’s supply side by probing into the urban village of Dafen, a site that is home to the most upstream however gloomy and invisible section on the distribution chain of global art business that ...
評分Wong’s Van Gogh on Demand unveils a vivid story of the art world’s supply side by probing into the urban village of Dafen, a site that is home to the most upstream however gloomy and invisible section on the distribution chain of global art business that ...
評分Wong’s Van Gogh on Demand unveils a vivid story of the art world’s supply side by probing into the urban village of Dafen, a site that is home to the most upstream however gloomy and invisible section on the distribution chain of global art business that ...
評分Wong’s Van Gogh on Demand unveils a vivid story of the art world’s supply side by probing into the urban village of Dafen, a site that is home to the most upstream however gloomy and invisible section on the distribution chain of global art business that ...
評分Wong’s Van Gogh on Demand unveils a vivid story of the art world’s supply side by probing into the urban village of Dafen, a site that is home to the most upstream however gloomy and invisible section on the distribution chain of global art business that ...
圖書標籤: 人類學 藝術史 文化研究 藝術 城市 海外中國研究 山寨與復製 現代
一個深圳人在悉尼的日本書店裏看到伯剋利學者寫的大芬村研究時的那個激動啊。。
評分理論寫得好,田野沒做特彆好。
評分寫得很眩目,都是理論
評分初讀一下被本傑明和杜尚的理論給唬住瞭,讀下去反倒覺得藝術史學傢從06-10做瞭五年田野寫齣來的人情味還是太少瞭,於是成瞭野心極大、理論炫目、包羅萬象、但缺乏田野厚度的著作。作者反對西方將大芬村看做藝術生産流水綫和假冒僞劣侵權工廠,重新解讀瞭畫傢們的藝術性和原創性,展現瞭畫室老闆的草莽創業精神、不同畫傢的身份教育性彆(是否入讀美院)對作畫方式的理解、學徒們跟隨師傅學畫而非打工,強調個體agency。市政府試圖將大芬村包裝為文化創意園區,做瞭很多基建和意識形態包裝宣傳(電視節目和紀錄片)。梵高畫傢們會創作畫品,不過分看重“稿”而更迎閤市場審美和需求的作畫。西方藝術傢同樣藉住大芬畫傢投射他們對資本主義、全球化的想象,自作多情地解讀大芬。最後草草談瞭在畫作上簽名對人們理解作品的意義和歸屬。Chris
評分作者是MIT畢業,現在Berkely修辭學係任教。因為有藝術史專業背景,對藝術理論關鍵問題把握得很好,從而寫的大芬村要比以往研究高齣很多段數。五年的田野,八年磨成一書,其中的沉澱,應該會使此書成為研究全球文化生産不可繞過的著作。很佩服。
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