ABSTRACT
This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious practices of eight art professionals who assume the role of artist, critic, curator, educator, cultural entrepreneur, and social activist, among others, as they strive to expose the injustice and inequality many Chinese people have suffered, raise public awareness of pressing social and environmental problems, and invent new ways and infrastructures to support various underprivileged social groups.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Art and Social Criticism
chapter 1|32 pages
Art Criticism, Exhibition, and Citizen Politics
chapter 2|29 pages
Waste, Pollution, and Environmental Activism
part II|64 pages
Art and Place Construction
chapter 3|31 pages
Art, Urban Renewal, and Grassroots Community Building
part III|67 pages
Art and Personal Development