Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue (Complete Set, 13 vols)

This thirteen-volume catalogue documents the art and history of Wuming, an underground group of artists active in Beijing from 1973 to 1981. Painting landscapes, portraits, and still lifes in oil paint, the Wuming artists rejected academic conventions and shunned the political propaganda art that dominated the Cultural Revolution, eking out an early form of Chinese modernism still little known. As a group, their alternative, counter-culture identity also exemplified the underground movements that emerged in the closing stages of the Maoist era. By turns poetic, abstract, and socially penetrating, these small, apolitical plein air paintings remain aesthetically resonant today, while redefining our understanding of the culture and politics of China’s early modernization. Each volume of the catalogue is devoted to one of the thirteen primary members of the group: Du Xia, Li Shan, Liu Shi, Ma Kelu, Shi Zhenyu, Tian Shuying, Wang Aihe, Wei Hai, Yang Yushu, Zhang Wei, Zhao Wenliang, Zheng Zigang, and Zheng Ziyan.

Aihe Wang is associate professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong.

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.1 Du Xia 无名画集 卷一 杜霞

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.2 Li Shan 无名画集 卷二 李珊

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.3 Liu Shi 无名画集 卷三 刘是

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.4 Ma Kelu 无名画集 卷四 马可鲁

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.5 Shi Zhenyu 无名画集 卷五 石振宇

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.6 Tian Shuying 无名画集 卷六 田淑英

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.7 Wang Aihe 无名画集 卷七 王爱和

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.8 Wei Hai 无名画集 卷八 韦海

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.9 Yang Yushu 无名画集 卷九 杨雨澍

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.10 Zhang Wei 无名画集 卷十 张伟

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.11 Zhao Wenliang 无名画集 卷十一 赵文量

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.12 Zheng Zigang 无名画集 卷十二 郑子钢

Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue Vol.13 Zheng Ziyan 无名画集 卷十三 郑子燕