Jennifer Dorothy Lee: Anxiety Aesthetics
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, December 4th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Jennifer Dorothy Lee will discuss Anxiety Aesthetics. She will be joined in conversation by Paola Iovene. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Presented in partnership with the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies.
About the book: Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China by arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism. Jennifer Dorothy Lee traces a selection of historical events and controversies in late 1970s and early 1980s Beijing, offering a fresh critical frame for doing symptomatic readings of protest ephemera and artistic interventions in the Beijing Spring social movement of 1978–80, while exploring the rhetoric of heated debates waged in institutional contexts prior to the ’85 New Wave. In magnifying this fleeting moment, Lee provides a new historical foundation for the unprecedented global exposure of contemporary Chinese art today.
About the author: Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
About the interlocutor: Paola Iovene is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, at the University of Chicago.
About the East Asia by the Book! Series: The East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series showcases CEAS faculty, alumni, and special guests who provide author talks and book launches as a way to engage the broader community in conversations regarding key scholarship on East Asia. This series features a presentation by the author(s) that is often facilitated through conversation with a discussant, following by a question and answer session with the audience.
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