Everyday Legend: Reinventing tradition in Chinese contemporary art1

Everyday Aesthetics in Contemporary Art

This article examines the relatively new field of everyday aesthetics and its use in artistic works. I argue anyone can have an aesthetic experience regardless of the source, in the sense that it can happen during daily activities and from the appreciation of banal objects. In addition, contemporary art explores the significance of the prosaic and how people react to a new approach that often r...

Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Lao Textiles

Reinventing Privilege: The New (Gay) Man in Contemporary Popular Media

– In recent years, the gay man/heterosexual woman couple configuration has become a genre unto itself in mediated popular culture, resulting in unprecedented mainstream visibility for gay men. Major mainstream films, such as My Best Friend’s Wedding, Object of My Affection, and The Next Best Thing, showcase this combination as their centerpiece, as does the highly rated prime-time network situa...

The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan

“What we would like,” said Obuchi Yasuo, the former mayor of a farm town in northeastern Japan, “is for young people and their employers in Tokyo to consider lifestyle alternatives never possible before. Male and female employees could maintain a spacious residence here in the countryside while commuting to work in the city.” Gazing out across the terraced rice paddies visible through the huge ...

Transformation in Chinese Theatre Works’ the Legend of White Snake

Title of Document: TRANSFORMATION IN CHINESE THEATRE WORKS’ THE LEGEND OF WHITE SNAKE Li-Min Lin, M.A., 2010 Directed By: Assistant Professor Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Department of Theatre This thesis examines Chinese Theatre Work’s The Legend of White Snake as a case study of intercultural performance. As an overseas non-profit organization in NYC, CTW creates production aims to “transform” t...