Since the early 1990s, contemporary Chinese artists have taken cues from the form, production and language of advertisements. Through case studies of this phenomenon, Wang's presentation traces an historical trajectory of artistic devices and strategies that both question and capitalize on how images mediate people's experiences with the world. Underlying these experiments is an interrogation into how visual culture communicates in an increasingly market-driven society, its implications for practices of looking and understanding and a critique of the cultural and visual agency of art.
This lecture is part of the Institute for Chinese Studies' "Cultures in Contact" series. For more information, please contact Jeffrey Chan at chan.184@osu.edu.
