Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context

  • Book
  • © 2015

Overview

Authors:
  1. Eva Kit Wah Man

    1. Dept of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Hongkong, Hong Kong

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Offers comparative perspectives on aesthetics between the West and the Chinese
  • Discusses both traditional and contemporary Chinese arts
  • Contributes to philosophical discussion on the diverging practices between different localities such as Hong Kong and Mainland China
  • Seeks to fill the gap of missing comparative aesthetics studies between China and Hong Kong
  • Combines philosophical discussion with sound empirical case studies of traditional and contemporary artworks ?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Chinese Contemporary Art Series (CCAS)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 1-4

  3. What Is an Author? A Comparative Study of Søren Kierkegaard and Liu Xie on the Meanings of Writing

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 5-14

  4. Rethinking Art and Values: A Comparative Revelation of the Origin of Aesthetic Experience (from the Neo-Confucian Perspectives)

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 15-21

  5. Contemporary Philosophical Aesthetics in China: The Relation Between Subject and Object

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 23-28

  6. Some Reflections on Confucian Aesthetics and Its Feminist Modalities

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 29-35

  7. Metaphysics, Corporeality and Visuality: A Developmental and Comparative Review of the Discourses on Chinese Ink Painting

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 37-45

  8. Experimental Painting and Painting Theories in Colonial Hong Kong (1940–1980): Reflections on Cultural Identity

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 47-55

  9. The Notion of “Orientalism” in the Modernization Movement of Chinese Painting of Hong Kong Artists in 1960s: The Case of Hon Chi-Fun

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 57-64

  10. Some Reflections on “Feminist Aesthetics”: Private/Public? Personal/Political? Gender/PostColonial?—the Case of Women Art in PostColonial Hong Kong in 1990s

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 65-70

  11. A Museum of Hybridity: The History of the Display of Art in the Public Museum of Hong Kong and Its Implications for Cultural Identities

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 71-78

  12. The Trinity of “Hong Kong -China- the World”: The Battle of Cultural Identities as a Form of Hegemony in Art in Postcolonial Hong Kong (Since 1990s)

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 79-86

  13. Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as Method: The Case of Lee Kit

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 87-94

  14. Influence of Global Aesthetics on Chinese Aesthetics: The Adaptation of Moxie and the Case of Dafen Cun

    • Eva Kit Wah Man
    Pages 95-103
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book discusses how China’s transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and traditions clashed with modernizing desires and forces, and how have these changes materialized in artistic manifestations? In addition to answering these questions, this book also brings Chinese philosophical concepts on aesthetics into dialogue with those of the West, making an important contribution to the fields of art, comparative aesthetics and philosophy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Hongkong, Hong Kong

    Eva Kit Wah Man

About the author

Professor Eva Kit Wah Man got her PhD from Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently Executive Associate Dean of Graduate School and a professor of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her academic research areas include Comparative Aesthetics, Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Feminist Aesthetics and philosophy, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. She has published numerous referred journal articles, creative prose writings and academic books in Philosophy and Aesthetics. She is also writing columns for Hong Kong Economic Journal on philosophy and art. She hosts cultural programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong. In 2004, she acts as Fullbright Scholar at U C Berkeley, U.S. She is appointed as the Association of Marquette University Women (AMUW) women chair of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2009-2010. She is an active member of the American Society for Aesthetics, International Association of Aesthetics and the Chinese Association of Aesthetics

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context

  • Authors: Eva Kit Wah Man

  • Series Title: Chinese Contemporary Art Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46510-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-46509-7Published: 28 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51650-8Published: 22 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-46510-3Published: 17 August 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2199-9058

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-9066

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 103

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Aesthetics, Arts

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation