Wondrous the metaphor for cultural wipeout extracted by the same Huang Yong Ping from a glop of paper that had held the history of Chinese painting until run through a washing machine (The History of Chinese Art and A Concise History of Modern Painting Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes, 1987/1993). (studiointernational.com)
Huang Yong Ping, The History of Chinese Painting and A Concise History of Modern Painting Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes, 1987 (reconstructed 1993). (artnews.com)
As he told Artspace in a recent interview, «There hasn't been a comprehensive history of modern painting after Pollock, mainly because after the 1980s painting became very disreputable and people didn't really want to go back and look at the whole history. (artspace.com)