By Professor Paul Gladston

Books

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2024, Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Interventions with Confucian Aesthetics by Chinese Contemporary Artists

Gladston P, 2019, Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili Towards a Critical Contemporaneity, Bloomsbury Academic, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/contemporary-chinese-art-aesthetic-modernity-and-zhang-peili-9781350041974/

Gladston P, 2016, Paul Gladston, Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art: Selected Critical Writings and Conversations, 2007-2014, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg

Gladston P, 2015, Yu Youhan, 3030 Press, ShanghArt, Shanghai

Gladston P, 2014, Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History, Reaktion Books, London

Gladston P, 2013, Avant-garde Art Groups in China, 1979-1989: The Stars - The Northern Art Group - The Pond Association - Xiamen Dada, A Critical Polylogue, INTELLECT LTD, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Gladston P, 2011, Contemporary Art in Shanghai: Conversations with Seven Chinese Artists, Blue Kingfisher Limited

Gladston P, 2005, Art History after Deconstruction: Is There Any Future for a Deconstructive Attention to Art History?, Magnolia

Book Chapters

Gladston P, 2022, ''Reading Transcultural Aesthetics through Images'', in Coalter C (ed.), Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics/History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2022, '‘Chinese Confucian-literati Culture and Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Aesthetics’', in Coalter C (ed.), Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury., London, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350930377.001

Gladston P; Kennedy-Schtyk B, 2021, 'Rendering Frontiers: From China's Historical Dynastic-Imperial to Modern Republican Borders and the Changing Significances of Chinese Art', in Gladston P; Turner M; Kennedy-Schtyk B (ed.), Visual Culture wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of "Post-West" Contemporaneity, Palgrave Macmillan, London and Singapore

Gladston P, 2021, 'Foreword', in Hogan J (ed.), Survival Aesthetics © Interview Series: On Post-Contemporary Art Practice in Japan, Japan Foundation

Gladston P, 2021, '‘#15 Change – Mountain in Full Bloom, Yicong Guo’', in UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 94 - 97

Gladston P, 2021, '超越鄙视（当代性：论关于国际后现代主义艺术理论和中国当代艺术理论的多方对话 (Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): toward a polylogue of international and localized perspectives on the significances of Chinese contemporary art),', in Lu CY (ed.), China as an Issue: Artistic and Intellectual Practices Since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century vol.4, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, pp. 61 - 85

Gladston P, 2020, 'Case study: The work of Zhang Peili and the Pond Association (Chi she)', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 137 - 170, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Critical art and aesthetics within China and Euro-America before modernism', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 43 - 74, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Modernisms within and outside China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 75 - 104, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Postmodernisms and contemporaneity within and outside China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 105 - 135, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Prolegomenon Post-Enlightenment aesthetic modernity, postmodernity and contemporaneity', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 11 - 41, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2019, '‘Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Aesthetic Social Engagement’', in Sharing and Participating - 'The Commons': Art and Social Aesthetic Education, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

Gladston P, 2019, '‘Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Critical resistance’', in Proceedings of the Conference Aesthetics, Society and the Travels of Critical Theory International Conference, Beijing Normal University, Beijing

Gladston P, 2018, '‘A/n (Disjunctive) Encycling of Notes on the Work of the Artist Setsuko Ono’,', in Setsuko Ono, Parallax-Asia House, London

Gladston P, 2018, '‘Critical Reflections on Yu Youhan’s Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', in Yu Youhan: Representational-Abstract, Long Museum, Chongqing

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2018, '‘Of Nühua (‘women’s painting’) and the Absenting of Ink: A Critical Meditation on Works by the Artist Fu Xiaotong’,', in Fan F; Wang C (ed.), New Debates on Ink Art: The Genealogy of Ink Art and Its Conceptual Changes – The Historical Identity Dimensions, Wuhan Art Museum – Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, Wuhan - Hebei, pp. 432 - 488

Gladston P, 2017, '‘Conversación con Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston’', in La Construcción de la(s) historia(s) del arte contemporáneo en China, Edicions Ballatera, Barcelona

Gladston P, 2017, '‘Critical Reflections on Yu Youhan’s Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', in Yu Youhan – PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Gladston P, 2016, '‘Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao’: A Stratagem Towards a Post-crisical Art', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 65 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_6

Gladston P, 2016, '‘Sound Can Be Seen and Form Can Be Heard’', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 139 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_18

Gladston P, 2016, '“Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): towards a discursive polylogue of international postmodernist and Chinese contemporary art theory”', in Gao M (ed.), Criteria-Method-Context, Central Compilation and Translation Press, Beijing

Gladston P, 2016, 'A Short Essay About the Work of Wang Xin and Chen Yongwei', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 183 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_24

Gladston P, 2016, 'Answering the Question—‘What is the Chinese Avant-Garde?’', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 121 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_14

Gladston P, 2016, 'Collaboration as Struggle and Non-cooperation', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 129 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_16

Gladston P, 2016, 'Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 55 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_5

Gladston P, 2016, 'Disjuncture—Tradition—Indirectness', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 125 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_15

Gladston P, 2016, 'Inside the Yellow Box', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 95 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_11

Gladston P, 2016, 'International Curatorial Practice and the Problematic De-Territorialization of the ‘Identity’ Show', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 17 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_2

Gladston P, 2016, 'Low Resolution', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 115 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_13

Gladston P, 2016, 'Objectless Desire', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 167 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_21

Gladston P, 2016, 'Qianwei (‘Avant-Garde’) Art in Reform-Era China', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 31 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_3

Gladston P, 2016, 'Silence and Recuperation', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 83 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_8

Gladston P, 2016, 'The (Continuing) Story of Ai', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 89 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_10

Gladston P, 2016, 'The 14th Month (After the Great Flood)', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 177 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_23

Gladston P, 2016, 'The Cult of Ai', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 85 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_9

Gladston P, 2016, 'The Double Way', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 79 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_7

Gladston P, 2016, 'Time, Life and Nature', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 133 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_17

Gladston P, 2016, 'Track Changes', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 105 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_12

Gladston P; Gladston LH, 2015, 'Overlit realm/inner world: A loosely articulated series of notes on the work of the artist Lu Xinjian', in Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art: Selected Critical Writings and Conversations, 2007-2014, pp. 161 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_20

Gladston P, 2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes on Works by the Artist Jia’', in The Chinese Version: Jia, Walther König, Köln:

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes towards a Reading of Lu Xinjian’s Series of Paintings, Constellations’', in Lu Xinjian: Constellations, Art Labour Gallery, Shanghai

Gladston P, 2015, '‘Within and Between Floating Wor(l)ds: a (Disjointed) Series of notes on the Work of the Artist Paul Furneaux’', in Paul Furneaux: Outside-Inside, a Contemporary Use of Japanese Woodcut Printing, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh

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