Wu Hung 1945-

Monumentality in early Chinese art and architecture by Wu Hung ( Book )
6 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 569 libraries worldwide
Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextualized as part of a well-defined cultural and political tradition. The book begins with the first comprehensive explanation of "ritual art." This native genre encompasses ceremonial pottery, jades, and bronzes, which, though often small and hidden, manifest a unique sense of the monumental.

The Wu Liang Shrine : the ideology of early Chinese pictorial art by Wu Hung ( Book )
3 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in English and Chinese and held by 475 libraries worldwide

The double screen : medium and representation in Chinese painting by Wu Hung ( Book )
5 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in English and Chinese and held by 471 libraries worldwide

Remaking Beijing : Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space by Wu Hung ( Book )
5 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 448 libraries worldwide

Contemporary Chinese art : primary documents ( Book )
3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 398 libraries worldwide

Transience : Chinese experimental art at the end of the twentieth century by Wu Hung ( Book )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in English and held by 378 libraries worldwide
Wu Hung, a leading expert on ancient and contemporary Chinese art, has identified three critical aspects of current artistic production in China - demystification, ruins, and transience.

Between past and future : new photography and video from China by Wu Hung ( Book )
3 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 369 libraries worldwide

Body and face in Chinese visual culture ( Book )
4 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 314 libraries worldwide

Exhibiting experimental art in China by Wu Hung ( Book )
3 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 290 libraries worldwide

The art of the Yellow Springs : understanding Chinese tombs by Wu Hung ( Book )
5 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 272 libraries worldwide
Summary: No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labor to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images. In art history, these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated as 'treasure troves' of exciting and often previously unknown works of art. New trends in Chinese art history are challenging this way of studying funerary art: now an entire memorial site - rather than any of its individual components - has become the focus of both observation and interpretation. "The art of the Yellow Springs" originates from and expands on this scholarship by making interpretative methods the direct subject of consideration.