1993 APT1 Conference : Identity, tradition and change

8 category of politica l approval or unde r a c u r a to r i a l no tion of the 'folk' or the 'popular'. C: Some Circumvention Stra teg ies There seem to be seve ra l ava ilab le s t r a t e g i e s to avoid the exclusions of rep r e sen ting outlined above. a. A r tis tic genealogies across genera tions The un it of examination in in t e rn a t io n a l exh ib itions , even ones which go beyond h av ing a single r e p r e s e n t a t iv e for d isc r e te tendenc ies , would appea r to be the a r t i s t and h is /h e r work/s. One way ou t of th is is to demarca te th e hidden and unacknowledged a r t i s t i c genea logies which frequen tly underly personal and formal opposition be tween a r t i s t s and th e ir teache rs . Such a case is the re la tion sh ip be tween th e Hangzhou guohua p a in t e r Lu Yanshao and his former g radua te s t u d e n t Gu Wenda. In sty le they are qu ite opposed, and Gu would co rrec tly po in t out t h a t he spen t most of his time a t Hangzhou read ing Western science and c ritic a l philosophy. On a s ty l i s t i c a ffilia tion basis they are qu ite ap a r t, y e t on the leve l of cu ltu ra l discourse they are in tima te ly tied up with one ano ther. It is th is re la tion , frequen tly hidden because modern a r t i s t s develop ou t of opposition to th e i r teachers , which w?ould draw? in to c u l tu r a l unde rs tand ing those exposed to the ir works in ano th e r a r t cu ltu re . b. A rtis tic re la tionsh ips across a r t cohorts and across a r t worlds Art h is to ry and museum cu ltu re inc lud ing modern in t e rn a tion a l art gallery cu ltu re have become so used to p a t t e r n i n g th e p a s t inside hand leab le categories t h a t w'e forget they have a ve ry s trong impact on our se lec tion of the r ep re sen ta tiv e p re s en t. In Japan , and in te rn a tion a lly , it is easy to ignore the fact t h a t yoga a v a n t - g a r d i s t Yoshihara Jiro and the nihonga master Higashiyama Kai were working a t the same time, and indeed