기호와 해석: 동시대 중국 미술에서 모택동기호에 대한 재-약호화

Abstract

With Mao ( Mao tsetung) Thought is regarded as the Chinese Marxism, it can also reveal the inseparable relationship between Mao and the Chinese Red Revolution. In other words, Mao mark has had a core status in the Chinese representational system all the time. Meanwhile, Chinese artists try to take sole possession of, twist and re-explain the Mao mark in different kinds of ways, together with Decanonization in the contemporary art. For example, Chinese artists opposed the absolute authority – the standards, classics of Mao Thought/ Red Culture, and even criticized the rigidity and violence of them (1980s). Furthermore, they intervened in the reality by satirizing “God Death” in various ways (1990s). Particularly, these trends show some multiple and opposite conditions together with the logic of the cultural commercialization in the present. So a series of products of re-symbolizing the Mao mark mainly show the thought of intervening in the reality by reintroducing and expanding the area of history through former marks. For instance, if various desires of re-symbolization of the sign of “God” is fulfilled through little people(Kleine Leute), their narrative is what cannot be expressed in the existing language(representational system), that is, a thought on the thing which resides out of the language. That is, the corrections, expansions of the existing languages and also away of creating new languages. While language is produced and derived through the “dialogues,” the purpose of this article is focused on the analysis of the re-symbolization of the existing mark carrying with dialogues and its developing method. Therefore, the author has entitled the article “Mark and Analysis.”