Title in English / Translated English

Womanly Blooms: Cai Jin’s Beauty Banana Plant Paintings

Staff Serials No.

0103

Authors Name (in English)

Carol ARCHER Dr., Lingnan UniversityFollow

Single Authored / Co-Authored

A. Single-Authored

Non-English Output

N. No

Research Output Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

7-2012

Assessment Period Reflected by Research Output

B. Assessment years : 1 Oct 2007 - 30 Sep 2013

Source Journal / Book / Conference Title

n. paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal (Feminist Aesthetics)

Publisher / Printer

KT Press

ISBN / ISSN

14610434

Volume

30

Page No. - First page

48

Page No. - End page

58

Paper Version for Upload

A. Publisher Version

Abstract

The title of my doctoral thesis (completed 2006) was “Frames, Flows, Feminist Aesthetics: Paintings by Judy Watson, Cai Jin and Marlene Dumas”. With the publication of this article I fulfilled my goal of publishing on all three painters in venues appropriate to the themes, methods and intended audience of my writing on those artists. In this case that venue was an issue of n. paradoxa—the only international journal devoted to scholarly and critical writing by women art historians, critics and artists on visual art by contemporary women artists—which was specifically devoted to feminist aesthetics. The paper interrogates a “botanical turn” apparent in the work of women artists from China, and asks what this tendency reveals about contemporary Chinese notions of the feminine. Its contribution is significant not least because it helps to redress the gender bias that currently exists in curatorial practices and scholarship on contemporary Chinese painting.

Published as of census date

A. Published

Non-traditional output

N. No

Double weighting request

N. No

Format of Full Version Submission

1. Electronic Submission - Online via this interface

Keywords

Cai Jin



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