Wu Hung

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners. The other story explores the connections between object, painting, and photography, with the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artefacts...

From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works—in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco—form a major trend in Chinese art. The Allure of Matter offers the first serious consideration of these groundbreaking material explorations, coining the term Material Art to describe works that place "matter" itself as the primary vehicle of investigation...

From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution, contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a globalised art world where the distinctions between Eastern and Western civilisation are rapidly collapsing. In this first systematic introduction to the topic, Wu Hung provides a much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media during a...

Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic production in China. At its centre lies a large question: how has photography represented China and its people, collective history and memory, individual subjectivity and creativity? Beautifully illustrated, this book offers a multifaceted and in-depth analysis of an important photographic history.