This fascinating look at the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections, one of the largest, most comprehensive and important collection of contemporary Chinese art in the world, provides the perfect springboard to explore the role of cultural identity in today’s global art world. Spanning forty years and bringing together works by artists such as Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, and Fang Lijun, this volume follows the development of contemporary art in China in the new millennium. Focusing on recent acquisitions of the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections, the book examines them through the prism of cultural globalization and cultural homogeneity. For the younger generation of artists presented in this book, a global art market and global network are part of the norm and their work reflects these conditions. At the same time, Chinese art is now an established entity in contemporary art, and many Chinese artists are exploring what is specifically “Chinese” in their work and turning to the traditions of the past. This groundbreaking volume unfolds a new panorama of Chinese art and assesses how attitudes toward Chinese contemporary art have evolved.

Chinese Whispers: Recent Art of the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections

Arts & Photography

Bühler, Kathleen

Kunstmuseum Bern

Paul Klee, Zentrum

History & Criticism

Prestel

Martin Kippenberger died in 1997 at the young age of 44. Nach Kippenberger--after Kippenberger--collects together various essays which pave the way for an understanding of his work after the fact, for the next generation. Essayists include Eva Meyer-Hermann, Anke Kempkes and Manfred Hermes, and more than 250 images illustrate Kippenberger's life and work.

Nach Kippenberger

Meyer-Hermann, Eva

Walther König, Köln

A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and performance art. Cahn’s diverse body of work is disturbing and dreamlike, filled with striking human figures pulsing with an energy both passionate and violent. These pieces, along with Cahn’s reflections on artistic expression, have always responded to her contemporary moment. In the 1980s, her work addressed the feminist, peace, and environmental movements, while the work she produced in the 1990s and early 2000s contains allusions to the war in the former Yugoslavia, the conflict in the Middle East, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her recent production tackles ever-evolving political conflicts, engaging with the European refugee crisis and the “#metoo” movement. Miriam Cahn: I as Human examines different facets of the artist’s prolific and troubling oeuvre, featuring contributions from art historians, critics, and philosophers including Kathleen Bühler, Paul B. Preciado, Elisabeth Lebovici, Adam Szymczyk, Natalia Sielewicz and .

MIRIAM CAHN: I AS HUMAN (M Books)

Preciado, Paul B.

de Chassey, Éric

Segato, Rita

Lebovici, Élisabeth

Dziewanska, Marta

Szymczyk, Adam

Ara, Anna

Garcia, Fernando López

Sielewicz, Natalia

Momro, Jakub

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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