The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi

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Introduction Chinese Contemporary Art: Between Deconstruction and Construction
Part I Defining the Human and Humanizing the Divine
	1 Gratings, Barriers, and Boundaries:  Wang Guangyi’s Transcendental Painting
	2 Wang Guangyi: Popular Study on Anthropology
Part II Duplicating the Scene
	3 Wang Guangyi’s “Material Spirit”: A Religion Embodied in Art
	4 The Tears of Pictures: Duplication and Inflection in Wang Guangyi’s Oeuvre
Part III Bridging the Cultural Divide through Pop
	5 On the Meanings of Propaganda
	6 A Critique of Wang Guangyi’s Great Criticism: Coca-Cola
Part IV Words and Images: Two Instruments to Describe the World
	7 Wang Guangyi: On Contemporary Pop Art, “Covers,” Remix, and Political Theology
	8 The Globalist Dimension of Art: Wang Guangyi and Transculturalism
Part V Erasing the Emotions
	9 Grief and the Power of the Mind
	10 Reasoning with Idols: A Conversation with Wang Guangyi
Part VI The Circle of Life: Presenting and Representing Food
	11 Food Art, a Hymn to Nature
	12 Food in Wang Guangyi’s Art
Part VII In Dialogue with Wang Guangyi
	13 Nothingness, God, the Soul, and the World: A Conversation with Wang Guangyi
	14 Dark Learning, Mysticism, and Art: A Conversation with Wang Guangyi
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