Identifying touchpoints between British and Chinese women's art in the twenty-first century

DISSERTATIONS IDENTIFYING TOUCHPOINTS BETWEEN BRITISH AND CHINESE WOMEN’S ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. BY YANG, YIQING

PHD Dissertation by the same title submitted at Coventry University DATE 2021 SOURCE Courtesy of the Author

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Identifying touchpoints between British and Chinese women's art in the twenty-first century

Published on Sep 18, 2026

Ben Uri Research Unit

Studies of women’s art in the current century are redressing past invisibilities by involving diverse groups of women. However, new questions have been raised; how do we appreciate women’s artworks across cultural boundaries? How do we undermine the gender binary that has caused an imbalance in culture and in the art world? This thesis is concerned with these questions and studies eight installation works produced by eight women artists from Britain and China, with analysis that opens up more possibilities in a transcultural context. To achieve that, I provide a semiotic analysis to the selected artworks that is guided by a phenomenological feminist standpoint theory. These artworks are categorised into three principal themes: the female body, domesticity, and reproduction for a systematic interpretation. The analysis is enriched by semi-structured interviews with each artist as well as exhibition catalogues, art reviews, and scholarly publications. Throughout the analysis, the concept of entanglement also co

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