2007 Fractal Image Art Nanjing
FRACTAL IMAGE ART NANJING
Author: Xue Hongyan
Publisher: Hei Longjiang Fine Arts Publishing House
FRACTAL IMAGE ART NANJING
Thank all people who made contributions to the contemporary arts of Jiangsu Province!
Devoted to all people who care for and love Chinese contemporary arts!
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Book name: / Fractal Image Art Nanjing / Written by: Xue Hongyan
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Author / Xue Hongyan
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Publisher: /Heilongjiang Fine Art Publishing House
Address: / 225, Anding Street, Daoli District, Harbin City
Postcode: / 150016
Distributor: / National New China Book Stores
Editor in Charge / Huang Guoying
Calibrated by: / Huang Yulong
Telephone: / (0451)84270514 84270525
Website: / WWW.HLJMSS.COM
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Front cover design / Chen Qingyang
Layout design: / Chen Qingyang
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Printed by: / Nanjing New Century League Printing Co., Ltd.
Book Size: / 787 x 1092 mm 1 / 16
Printing Sheets: / 26
Number of words / 310,000
Edition No.: / First edition in November 2007
Impression / First print in November 2007
Number of prints: / 1-1200 volumes
Standard book No. / ISBN 978-7-5318-1969-1
Price: / RMB88.00
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Centered on Nanjing, this book describes the status quo of Jiangsu’s contemporary arts.
Fractal is a special term in math. It opposes the method in traditional math solidifying a stagnant and passive world through qualitative analysis on things, but is used to describe an irregular, complicated and ever changing world.
Fractal reveals a new state and new order between the overall body and each component, between order and disorder and between complication and simplicity, uncovering a scene of universal connections and uniformity of the world in a certain level. It not only signals another significant technological progress in human history, but is also changing people’s thinking mode in observing and recognizing the objective world: people recognize the overall body and indefiniteness by knowing every part and definiteness.
In this book, the author uses “fractal image” to describe the status quo of Jiangsu’s contemporary arts, because we could not use any simple and solo words to describe in which state Jiangsu’s contemporary arts are. However, we could offer a quite true description of it. Any object, no matter how complicated it is, has its internal “self-similarity”, as each element in the system could reflect and contain the nature and information of the whole system so as to present the overall system through each part.
Either as independent artists or the overall artists in a region, they could more or less extend their influence on contemporary arts in a larger scope. The history of Jiangsu’s contemporary arts is a local miniature of China’s contemporary arts and could show its unique look.
China’s contemporary arts are in the youth age before growing mature. She is complicated, colorful and contains too many uncertainties and possibilities. Compared to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong Province, where contemporary arts have been well developed, Jiangsu’s contemporary arts are still very young. Jiangsu’s artists always are full of cultural atmosphere. Their works emphasize rhythm and charm. Even in works of contemporary arts, we could unavoidably smell this tradition-extending tone: it is dreamlike and offers an easy handling……
Nobody could change the mellow history. Nanjing was once a heavy fortress of China’s contemporary arts. Things are in constant development and changes. The younger it is, the more changes and possibilities it would contain. Jiangsu’s contemporary arts are in struggle with “localization” and “internalization”, “individuals” and “entirety”, “tradition” and “contemporary era”, showing more and more its own unique features and breeding the possibility of local changes. The “fractal image” is very probable to cause the “butterfly effect”.
This book has a fresh and fluid style and some sections use the form of interview, presenting a “contending” lecture platform, reflecting a quite real status of the contemporary arts of Jiangsu and even the overall China.
