Life and Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China Paperback – 15 December 2012

For all their ubiquity life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese Life and Death addresses that Exploring the strategies employed by a variety of Chinese artists who engage with these timeless concerns Silvia Fok opens a new line of inquiry about contemporary art in a rapidly changing Fok focuses in particular on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies animals' bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art installations and Over the course of her investigations corporeality emerges as a common means of highlighting the social and cultural issues that surround these By assessing its effectiveness in the expression of life death and related ideas Fok ultimately illuminates the extent to which we can see corporeality as a significant trend in the history of contemporary art in Her conclusions will fascinate scholars of performance and installation art photography and contemporary Chinese art.

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