Burden or Legacy

Burden or LegacyThe Cultural Revolution in China (19661976) has often been regarded as a period of disruptive turbulence and frenzied savagery. Its legacy to artistic growth and expression amounts to nothing except a burden of haunting traumas. Or does it amount to more than that? The seven authors in this anthology of essays and images argue that it does. Focusing on the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the development of contemporary art in China, they present

Sharkey tells the compelling story of an unusually gifted

arguing that silence is an authentic mode of knowing

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drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forged amidst these dramatic transformations

and the resulting disruption of expectations leads to fear

and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities

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After she is rescued by a mysterious man masquerading as White Domino

Sandip places himself between Nikhil and his wife while secretly attempting to convince Bimala to use her husband’s wealth to support the Swadeshi cause

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A collection of poems by the South Korean poet Lee Jangwook