Jiny LAN and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics Through a Feminist Lens

Jiny LAN and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics Through a Feminist Lens - Paperback

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Jiny LAN and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics Through a Feminist Lens
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Jiny LAN and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics Through a Feminist Lens - Paperback

Jiny LAN and the Art of Subversion: Chinese-German Culture and Politics Through a Feminist Lens - Paperback

by Qinna Shen
$62.95
$62.95

Book Overview

by Qinna Shen (Author)

Examines the career and message paintings of the feminist conceptual artist Jiny Lan, analyzing a cross-section of works that invite literary, historical, socio-political and transcultural interpretations.

Jiny Lan is an avant-garde Chinese artist based in Germany. A founding member of the feminist art collective "Bald Girls," she infuses astute, politically charged, and iconoclastic criticism into her conceptual and visual art. Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion provides a hermeneutic and critical analysis of Lan's idiosyncratic, provocative, and ingenious artwork. "Subversion" refers not only to her political and cultural subversiveness but also to her iterative technique of reproduction and repainting, which she uses to create a series of genealogically related "sub-versions" of her own paintings.

As an émigré and immigrant artist, Lan is profoundly influenced by both eastern and western cultures and traditions. Her immersive experience and extensive knowledge of two contrasting national histories, cultures, and political systems endows her with a unique intersectional positionality. Her artwork is at once figurative and abstract, realistic and fantastic, chaotic and logical, appropriative and creative. It interrogates serious issues such as censorship, authoritarianism, democracy, human rights, sexism, racism, war, migration, and Covid-19, but in a dynamic and often humorous manner. This book lays a foundation for evaluating Lan as an artist whose work invites discussions about portraiture, power, temporality, space, corporality, and sex.

This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: November 18, 2025
ISBN9781640142916
Author Qinna Shen
PublisherCamden House (NY)
GenreNews & politics and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Qinna Shen is Assistant Professor of German at Bryn Mawr College in the suburb of Philadelphia. Her research interests concentrate on the areas of German Studies (20th century), Film Studies, and Transnational Studies with a focus on German-Asian cultural relations. She has co-edited Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia (Berghahn, 2014). Her monograph entitled The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films (Wayne State UP, 2015) is the first comprehensive, critical, book-length treatment of the live-action fairy-tale films from former East Germany. Her next book project is tentatively titled "Raising the 'Bamboo Curtain': Film Exchange between China and Divided Germany." It will focus primarily on international film trade, genres, cultural politics, censorship, reception, as well as on German-Chinese co-productions.

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