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"This book contains newspaper clippings by He Qingji from the 1980s to 1998. He Qingji is also an art critic, cultural management professor, and curator. He has been writing in different newspapers since the 1980s. Art critics use superficial words to comment on works in a simple and profound way, remove the artist’s mysterious and inaccessible perception in popular imagination, and integrate art into popular life. As Ding Yingyin puts forward in “Introduction”, He Qingji’s writing art criticism aims to expand The audience's understanding of art. He refuses to ask for a thorough understanding and never accepts any single interpretation of a work. Whether it is the most popular Western art theories, traditional aesthetic concepts, or the "top works" touted by the European and American art circles and international galleries , He will also look at it critically.
The so-called "never leave the ground" means to base itself on the mainland, with all its care in Hong Kong. At that time, Hong Kong still lacked the awareness of art curation. He Qingji put forward his opinions on the art policy at that time and brought the contemporary significance of curation into it. His articles raised many issues in the cultural and artistic circles at that time, which are still applicable today. "Following the Land Art Review" is an important reading that reflects on the relationship between art and Hong Kong politics, society and culture.
【About the Author】
He Qingji was the exhibition director of the Hong Kong Art Center and the founding curator of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Since the late 1980s, he has curated more than one hundred local and overseas exhibitions, including the second and third Australia Asia Pacific Art Triennial 》Guest curator, Asian curator of the "Container Box 96" exhibition in Kobengen; also a member of the Advisory Group of the West Kowloon Cultural District Museum, responsible for conceiving the M+ Museum in West Kowloon; and the founding director of the Asian Archives Member of the 13th "Documenta" International Committee, responsible for selecting the art director of the exhibition.
He has been engaged in cultural criticism for many years. He has written articles in Hong Kong and overseas newspapers and magazines such as "Art Forum", "Art Journal", "Art News", "Hong Kong Daily", "Apple Daily", etc. He is an international art critics association. Founder of the Hong Kong Chapter and Chairman of the Board of Directors of "Cultural Scene" magazine. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the director of the Master of Cultural Management program. He is committed to criticizing and curating. "
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[Follow the Ground Art Criticism-He Qingji Newspaper Clipping Collection (1980-1990s)]
Author: Heqing Ji
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Shoumin Publishing House was established in 2015. It is dedicated to publishing Hong Kong studies, gender theory, left-wing theory and Republican studies, hoping to introduce the latest discourse and research into Hong Kong's cultural perspective through original and translated works. Books published include "Hong Kong's Third Road: Mo Zhaoru's Anaki Popular Drama", "Kaka Feminism", "Mirror: Chinese Visual Modernity", "Writing for Left-wing Populism" and "The People's Present: Thinking of Urban Democracy in the Post-Occupy Era" etc.
