Semiotic Warfare

Semiotic Warfare looks at the art of the avant-garde art movement in China from the period 1979 to 1989. This book takes the perspective that the avant-garde artworks of the time were a factor in the radical political and social changes in the first decennium after the cultural revolution. The author reveals the relationship between art and the radical social changes after the revolution through an analysis of visual signs employed in works of art that were subject to controversies in that period.