Ai Weiwei and contemporary ceramics as narrator of History

Authors

  • Sandra Minae Sato Instituto de Artes e Design da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, MG

Keywords:

Ceramic art, historic narrative, contemporary art

Abstract

This essay presents the review of ceramic work of Chinese Ai Weiwei under the approach of witness and narrator of contemporary history, based mostly on views of scholars as Charles Jencks and Michael Archer. It is a fragment from the short course “Ceramics: narrator of History”, presented at XXIV Week of Classic Studies: frontiers and limits, promoted by Department of Language and Literatures of Federal University of Juiz de fora, Brazil on 2016. Practice of all cultures, continuously since pre-history, ceramics is a powerful instrument for register and narrative not only of Art History, but also of human history itself. Moreover, it proceeds adapted to new narratives and communication forms of nowadays.

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Author Biography

Sandra Minae Sato, Instituto de Artes e Design da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, MG

Sandra Minae Sato é professora do Instituto de Artes e Design da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, MG. Atualmente desenvolve pesquisa em cerâmica artística e expressões tridimensionais. PhD em Poéticas Visuais na Escola de Comunicação e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo com orientação da professora doutora Norma Grinberg: “A cerâmica na criação artística: as interfaces na contemporaneidade”, concluído em Abril de 2016.

References

ARCHER, M. Arte contemporânea: uma história concisa. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2001;

CLARK, G. Mind mud: the conceptual ceramics of Ai Weiwei. In: Ceramics in America 2011. Nova Inglaterra, EUA: The Chipstone Foundation and University Press, 2011;

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WARHOL, A. The philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again). EUA: Harvest, 1977;

WEIWEI, A. Dropping the urn: ceramics work, 5000 BCE-2010 CE. Pensilvânia, EUA: Arcadia University & Office for Discourse Engineering, 2010.

Referências Eletrônicas:

Estadão.com.br/Internacional. Pequim liberta sob fiança o dissidente Ai Weiwei. São Paulo: 2011. In: http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,Pequim-liberta-sob-fianca-o-dissidente-ai-weiwei,736054,0.htm. Acessado em 11 de fevereiro de 2016;

INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART. According to Ai Weiwei: Why do you remain in China?, 2013. In: http://www.imamuseum.org/accordingtoaiweiwei/why-do-you-remain-in-china/. Acessado em 12 de março de 2016;

KLAYMAN, A. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012). In: http://aiweiweineversorry.com/. Acessado em 5 de novembro de 2015;

TATE MODERN. Tate shots: Ai Weiwei, one-to-one. Londres, Inglaterra: 2010. In: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-ai-weiwei-one-one. Acessado em 12 de fevereiro de 2016;

Tate Modern. The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds. Londres, Inglaterra: 2010. In: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei-sunflower-seeds. Acessado em 7 de março de 2016;

YOUTUBE. Ai Weiwei: a conversation. Londres, Inglaterra: 12 de outubro de 2010. In: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-go2H9enz7Y. Acessado em 12 de novembro de 2015.

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Published

2017-03-17

How to Cite

SATO, S. M. Ai Weiwei and contemporary ceramics as narrator of History. Rónai – Revista de Estudos Clássicos e Tradutórios, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 111–118, 2017. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/23171. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Dossiê: XXIV Semana de Estudos Clássicos da UFJF

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