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93Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987Restructuring Architectural TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (3): 265. 1991.
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43Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-Garde ArtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (1): 109-119. 2007.
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42Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999–2011 edited by ravenal, john b Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections edited by tsao, hsingyuan and roger t. ames (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (4): 408-412. 2012.
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31Art Intervenes in Society: A New Artistic Relationship by wang, chunchenJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (4): 417-419. 2011.
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28Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art (edited book)Brill. 2011.How contemporary Chinese art is creating “a philosophy of life, a philosophy of politics, and a natural philosophy,” as artist Qiu Zhijie says it must, is explored in this collection of essays by philosophers and art historians from America and China
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26The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's HauntJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (2): 211-212. 1995.
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23Renaissance Madonnas and the Fantasies of FreudHypatia 8 (3). 1993.Through the work of Julia Kristeva, this paper challenges Freud's laws that everyone is always already gendered, that the mother is feminine and every infant masculine, and that one cannot love the same (gender). The figure of the Madonna, seen through the paintings of Giovanni Bellini, is used to theorize the time in the life of a child before Oedipus and to undo the conceptual knot with which Freud has bound the feminine to the maternal.
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20The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, TextJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4): 409-412. 2008.
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19Bathers, bodies, beauty: The visceral eye by Nochlin, LindaJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (3). 2007.
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18The Subject in Question: The Languages of Theory and the Strategies of Fiction (review)Philosophy and Literature 8 (1): 130-131. 1984.
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17Titian's WomenDefining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and CriticismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4): 420. 2000.
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17Jizi and his art in contemporary China: unificationJournal for Cultural Research 21 (1): 118-120. 2017.This is a book about the journey of a man, Jizi, whose goal was to make contemporary what is authentically Chinese and to do it in a way that speaks to an increasingly global audience. The first ha...
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15What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (review)Philosophy and Literature 18 (2): 354-355. 1994.
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14The Absence of Myth: Writings on SurrealismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (2): 197-198. 1996.
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13Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud (review)Philosophy and Literature 15 (2): 365-367. 1991.
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11Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese ArtIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 385-405. 2013.The idea of beauty in the West has often been connected with the idea of woman, whose beauty has been celebrated in sculptures of the nude since classical Greece and in paintings since the sixteenth century. the nude is not a genre in either traditional or contemporary Chinese art, however, and although there has been nakedness in the representations of the body in the contemporary art of China, its presence is marked by two characteristics that distance the Chinese naked body from the Western n…Read more
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11Water and Stone: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Spirit Resonance of the WorldContemporary Aesthetics 8. 2010.
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10The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist MythsHas Modernism Failed?Journal of Aesthetic Education 20 (3): 122. 1986.
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