Next: cartoon you (the art of post-seventies)""Next Station: Cartoon?"" [Paperback]

Softcover. Very Good. ""Next Station: Cartoon?"" is the title. Softcover in fluorescent green wrappers printed in silver. 319 pages. Text is bilingual Simplified Chinese/English illustrated profusely. No writing in book. Light signs of handling to covers; otherwise like new. Catalog of joint exhibition held at Star Gallery, Beijing in 2005. In the words of the curator Fang Fang, 'I have always wanted to curate an exhibition that represents the artistic state of my contemporaries. Since 2002, I have seen a number of new young writers such as Han Han, Guo Jingming, Chun Shu and Zhang Yueran burst onto the Chinese literature scene, the so-called ""post-1980"" generation. This has again inspired me to seek out the interests and enthusiasms of ""post-1970"" art. After much time spent wandering the streets, going from studio to studio, I finally found the twelve ""post-1970"" artists included in this book. They all have strong academic background, but have chosen to paint using ""cartoon"" forms that are not approved of by older generations. In this way, they have freed themselves from the bonds of their academic training, and are now living an ideal life in which they can ""do whatever they want to do"".' The catalog also includes a survey of Chinese residents born after 1970.