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Cross cultural art: a contemporary approach to traditional chinese landscape painting
journal contribution
posted on 2015-10-02, 09:01 authored by Christin BolewskiIs it possible today in the age of globalization to create new modes of cross-cultural art based on a comprehensive understanding of one culture without being accused of mimicking or exploiting another? This paper includes the presentation of an example of contemporary western video art that attempts to explore cross-cultural influences between the West and the East, and to discuss this question from the western perspective. Proceeding from Chinese thought and aesthetics, the traditional concept of landscape painting “Shan-Shui-Hua” (“mountain-water painting”) is recreated within the new western genre of the “video-painting” as a single (flat) screen video installation. Confronting the tools of modern computer visualisation with the East Asian concept creates an artistic artefact counter-pointing and reflecting both positions.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- Arts
Published in
US-China Foreign Language JournalVolume
9Issue
1 serial no. 88Pages
36 - 44Citation
BOLEWSKI, C., 2011. Cross cultural art: a contemporary approach to traditional chinese landscape painting. US-China Foreign Language Journal, 9 (1), pp. 36 - 44.Publisher
© David Publishing CompanyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
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2011Notes
This article was published in US-China Foreign Language [© David Publishing Company(DPC)] and the definitive version is available at: http://davidpublishing.com/ISSN
1539-8080Publisher version
Language
- es