What themes or subjects do these works share? How do these works differ?
What questions do you think these artists ask about the worlds in which they live? Consider place and time in relation to themes and questions throughout other east Asian time periods and art movements.
Use the comparisons as an opportunity to expand and develop learned through readings (attached).
1. How have different technologies affected the production, conception, and reception of art during the 20th and 21st centuries? Remember that in many Asian languages, “technology” also includes “technique.”
2. What opportunities do you think non-figurative and ephemeral works provided for artists? What kinds of questions did abstract works or live/performed works pose to the times and places in which they were made?
3. How have artists engaged with difference (nationality, region, ethnicity, race, class, gender, cultural/linguistic) in their works? You may choose to focus on one category of difference, or to think about multiple forms of difference.
4. Cao Fei has stated that “we’ll never get to know the truth, including the historical truth. We can only look for its traces.” What do you think this could mean in light of the works we’ve studied this term? (It’s not necessary to include Cao’s work)
