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livingotherwise.com
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| | | | | Over the past few years many smallerChinese cities have begun to cultivating contemporary art scenes as a way of building a "global cities" (Sassen 2001). Ürümchi, the capital city of ... | |
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blog.strom.com
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www.stuxgallery.com
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| | | | | Wei Dong was born in 1968 in Inner Mongolia, China. He received a BA in Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, China in 1991 and moved to the United States the same year. A personal obsession with the female body is one of Wei Dong's many complex interests. Growing up in China under the watchful eye of Mao's red guard, sexual fantasies and freedoms were forcibly repressed. Socialist realism was the standard fair in the art academies of the time, and as a result, any hint of sexual or erotic expression was taboo. Upon entering the United States in 1991, Wei Dong's preoccupation with the root of erotic desires as a young adult were given free reign over his canvases, resulting in grandiose explorations of the flesh. In the art... | |
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | To counteract the disorder of a city engulfed by internal strife and upheaval, we in the West would do well to rediscover the true meaning of vocation. We may cultivate an abundant yield simply by applying the virtues we associate with the master craftsman-diligence, recognition of quality, and striving for mastery-to whatever we do, whether work or leisure. (essay by Matthew Pheneger) | ||
