Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1 The Art for the City: Zhong Biao 1 The Spectacular Future 2 Urban Public Images 3 The City and China’s Urban Millennium 4 The Conception and Approach of the Book 2 From the Countryside to the City 1 Unity with Nature, Countryside, and Tradition 2 From the Countryside to the City 3 Urban Development in Contemporary China 4 Making Art in Urban China 3 De/Constructing Urbanization: Weng Fen, Chen Qiulin, and Han Bing 1 Constructing the Image of the City 2 Urbanization Deconstructed 3 Conceptualizing Demolition 4 The Temporary Free Territory 4 From Landscape to Urbanscape: Yang Yongliang 1 Artificial Wonderland and Urban Dystopia 2 The Making of Phantom Landscape 3 Bordering Heaven and Hell 4 Digital Technology and the Reign of Artificiality 5 Disappearing Bodies: Liu Bolin 1 Hiding in the City 2 The Emergence of the “Invisible Body” 3 Performing to Reveal 4 The Proliferation of “Little Men” 6 The Street at Day and Night: Wang Fenghua and Liu Xintao 1 Living on the Surface 2 Under the Bright Daylight 3 The Collapsing Night 4 Trash and Urban Disparity 7 Conclusion Index