Those Parodic Images: A Glimpse of Contemporary Chinese Art

The author reviews the exhibition “New Art in China, Post-1989” that opened at the University of Oregon Art Museum in December 1995 and is touring the United States until the end of 1997. In relation to the works of art reviewed, he also examines, from a global and postmodern perspective, most recent developments in Chinese avant-garde art, focusing on Chinese artists’ reactions to and interpretations of Western critical theories about postmodernism and intertextuality.