Yue Minjun

Name: Yue Minjun
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ISBN: 9780500970485

ISBN-10: 0500970483

ISBN-13: 9780500970485

Edition: 2012

Authors: Franï¿½ois Jullien, Ouyang Jianghe

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Born in 1962 in the city of Daqing in Heilongjiang Province in China, Yue Minjun is an icon of contemporary Chinese painting. Considered one of the protagonists of “Cynical Realism,” an art movement that emerged after the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he began developing his own distinctive iconography in the 1990s, which combines pictorial and historial references.Yue Minjun’s paintings are immediately recognizable: they are painted in bright colors on large canvases and peopled almost exclusively by laughing male figures, all which are self-portraits either presented as a single figure or replicated over and over again to form a battalion of grinning frozen-faced…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Chris Turneris a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre'sThe Aftermath of War,Portraits,andCritical Essaysand Andr Gorz'sEcologicaandThe Immaterial,all published by Seagull Books.

Ouyang Jianghe is a Chinese critic and poet.