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Seeing Sickness 看病: Mental Illness in Contemporary Chinese Art.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Seeing Sickness 看病: Mental Illness in Contemporary Chinese Art./
作者:	Click, Carolyn Louise.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	131 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-12.
標題:	Art history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27961574
ISBN:	9798607342371

Seeing Sickness 看病: Mental Illness in Contemporary Chinese Art.
Click, Carolyn Louise.

Seeing Sickness 看病: Mental Illness in Contemporary Chinese Art. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 131 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Mental illness and narratives of cultural 'sickness' have often been a theme in Chinese history. Not so long ago, Lu Xun's madman reminded us that metaphors of cultural illness do not stop at the bio-physical level, but often entail psychological pathologies. Today, artist Guo Haiping is also concerned with themes of psychological distress in Chinese culture. In this thesis, I examine three of Guo's art projects and how they engage with psychological narratives of both sickness and health through contemporary Chinese art. In the exhibition, Disease: Our Art Today, Guo confronts viewers with the concept of illness, or 病, and asks his audience to consider the 'sick' elements in contemporary Chinese art. In the performance, Seeing Sickness, Guo challenges hierarchies of pathological visibility by comparing the invisibility of mental ailments to the latency of cultural ailments. Finally, in Moving Drugstore, Guo proposes a cultural cure for this cultural illness through a collaborative performance of artists. Instead of deferring to institutions of medical or psychiatric science, Guo proposes a creative spiritual meditation on mental illness and its cultural roots. These artistic strategies are in direct contrast to the rational materialism of the recent neo-Confucianism adopted by PRC ideology. By going against prevalent state and social prejudices against mental illness in China, I argue that Guo uses art to engage in a similar project to what social anthropologist, Alice Street, terms "visibility work." Street writes about how many illnesses depend on "visibility work," either by individuals or institutions, in order to make an ailment 'seen' in a socially valid context. In light of this, artists like Guo Haiping can be seen as "visibility workers" who use contemporary art not only as a means to promote social acceptance, but as a means to bring the visibility of validation to the existence of mental illness. In the following thesis, I hope to show Guo Haiping's unique take, not only on visual activism for mental health, but on the contemporary artistic narrative of a 'sick' Chinese culture seen through the lens of psychological ailment.

ISBN: 9798607342371Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.
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China

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