Today Art Research Series of Books
1. Today Art Research Series of Books: Video
Video art rose from the western complex artistic reality in 1960’s. With the advancement of science and technology, lots of western artists affected
profoundly the development of Chinese video art through their ideas and the ways to interpret those ideas. During the twenty year of Chinese video
art development with three phases included that media exploration and language construction respectively for 10 years, and multiple existences since
2006. Many active artists full of creative enthusiasm developed Chinese video art and expanded its connotation and denotation.
Finally, this book lists abundant foreign video artists and their works, besides describing the creativity about fifty Chinese contemporary artists and showing
their works aimed to collate the video artists and their documents available and draw the outline of Chinese contemporary video art in order to supply the
reference for further research and analysis.
2. Today Art Research Series of Books: Chinese Photography
There are the same cultural background and reality between liberation of photographic concepts and emerging of video art. When the pictures do not
serve as a kind of tool to record any more, the artists started to combine the existing photographic skills with the conceptual art production, experimenting
on the media of photography so that the artistic forms begin to diversify. As a result, it led to diversified photographic concepts. The purpose of this book is
to collate the photographic works and documents since 1980’s and draw the outline of Chinese conceptual photography in order to supply the reference for
further research and analysis. It can help the establishment of Chinese video art collecting system.
3. Today Art Research Series of Books: Chinese installation Art
Installation Art is a new emerging art indicating a crossing exploration between kinds of artistic forms. It entered Chinese contemporary art field in 1980’s.
Under the influence of opening policy, many western art forms and theories flowed into Chinese art world. The installation art attracted the Chinese artists
with its challenge to traditional arts and vanguard in ideology, and was quickly used in Chinese artistic creativity.