Liu Yonggang and the Images of Chinese Calligraphy

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_7245
dc.contributor.author	Di Geronimo Veronica
dc.title	Liu Yonggang and the Images of Chinese Calligraphy
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The idea that Chinese characters are essentially pictures interests many artists of the contemporary scene that use the ambivalence of Chinese calligraphy to break up the normative communication system. Liu Yonggang (Genhe, 1964) is a singular case because in Standing Characters he dismantles the ordinary reading process of Chinese characters, maintaining the cognitive purpose of the ideographic language. Since the use of words in Liu’s production is not limited to his renowned anthropomorphic sculptures, the paper presents the overlapping of visual and verbal languages in different artworks focusing on the ‘intermediality’ aspect of his art. The mutual references of word and image are investigated to unveil the artist adoption of words and pictures as a whole and a unique entity, rather than a totality of complementary and interrelated languages.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-05-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-10-28
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-589-6/liu-yonggang-and-the-images-of-chinese-calligraphy/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-588-9/015
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-588-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Chinese Contemporary art
dc.subject	Iconotext
dc.subject	Liu Yonggang
dc.subject	Re-iconocity of characters
dc.subject	Word-picture relationship
dc.subject	刘永刚
dc.subject	当代艺术

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Liu Yonggang and the Images of Chinese Calligraphy

Veronica Di Geronimo Peking University, Beijing, China

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The idea that Chinese characters are essentially pictures interests many artists of the contemporary scene that use the ambivalence of Chinese calligraphy to break up the normative communication system. Liu Yonggang (Genhe, 1964) is a singular case because in Standing Characters he dismantles the ordinary reading process of Chinese characters, maintaining the cognitive purpose of the ideographic language. Since the use of words in Liu’s production is not limited to his renowned anthropomorphic sculptures, the paper presents the overlapping of visual and verbal languages in different artworks focusing on the ‘intermediality’ aspect of his art. The mutual references of word and image are investigated to unveil the artist adoption of words and pictures as a whole and a unique entity, rather than a totality of complementary and interrelated languages.

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May 13, 2022

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Oct. 28, 2021

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978-88-6969-588-9

Keywords: Liu Yonggang • Chinese Contemporary art • 刘永刚 • Iconotext • Re-iconocity of characters • 当代艺术 • Word-picture relationship

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