Research

Book chapters

• Paul Gladston (2024 – in press), ‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Toward a Polylogue between Differing International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art’, in Carol Lu ed., China as an Issue, London: Palgrave - English and Mandarin Chinese language translation.

Originally published in English as Paul Gladston (2014), ‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Polylogue between Differing International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art’, Tate Papers 21 (Spring 2014).

• Paul Gladston (2024 – in preparation), ‘Retheorizing Chinese Contemporary Art: Transcultural Defamiliarization and the Traces of Syncretic Confucianism’, in Haiping Yan, Laurent Dubreuil and Paul Gladston eds., Transculturality and China — in the World, London and Beijing: Routledge. Transcultural Studies in China Series (Tsinghua University – UK-China Humanities Alliance).

• Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston (2024), ‘Inside/Outside the Yellow Box: Toward a Poly/Cacophonic Displaying of Chinese Contemporary Art’, in Paul Gladston, Lynne Howarth-Gladston, Jason Kuo and Chang Tzong-zung eds., Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art, London and Singapore: Palgrave. Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics series.

• Paul Gladston (2024 – in press), '‘Humour/Youmo in Chinese Contemporary Art and Online Visual Culture: Identifying the Intertextual Traces of Confucian-literati Aesthetics’', in Gieskes M; Williams GH (ed.), Humor, Globalization, and Culture-specificity in Contemporary Art, Bloomsbury, London.

Edited collections

Book chapters

• Paul Gladston (2023), 'Dis-/continuing traditions: Chinese contemporary art, polylogic translation and the traces of confucian-literati culture', in Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts, 217-234.

• Paul Gladston (2023), ‘Other Ways of Seeing: Reading Transcultural Aesthetics through Images’, Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – London: Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics.

Journal articles

• Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston (2023), ‘Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art and the Intertextual Traces of English Romanticism’, Journal of Curatorial Studies 12(1), 48-79, opens in a new window.

Output of the research Project ‘The Thames Arcadia Rhizome’.

Book chapters

• Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston (2022), ‘Chinese Confucian-literati Culture and Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Aesthetics’, in Colleen Coalter ed., Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury., London and New York, opens in a new window.

Output of the research Project ‘The Thames Arcadia Rhizome’.

Journal reviews

• Paul Gladston (2022), ‘Review of Peggy Wang (2020), The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press’, The China Quarterly, opens in a new window. 

Edited collections

Book chapters

• Paul Gladston, Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk and Ming Turner (2021), 'Introduction', in Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China, Springer Singapore, 1 - 23,

• Paul Gladston and Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk (2021), 'Rendering Frontiers: From China's Historical Dynastic-Imperial to Modern Republican Borders and the Changing Significances of Chinese Art', in Paul Gladston, Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk and (Ming Turner eds., Visual Culture wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of "Post-West" Contemporaneity, Palgrave Macmillan, London and Singapore.

• Paul Gladston (2021), 'Foreword', in Jesse Hogan ed., Survival Aesthetics © Interview Series: On Post-Contemporary Art Practice in Japan, Japan Foundation.

• Paul Gladston (2021), '‘#15 Change – Mountain in Full Bloom, Yicong Guo’', in UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, Paris: UNESCO, 94 – 97.

• Paul Gladston (2021), '超越鄙视（当代性：论关于国际后现代主义艺术理论和中国当代艺术理论的多方对话 (Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): toward a polylogue of international and localized perspectives on the significances of Chinese contemporary art),', in Carol Yinghau Lu ed., China as an Issue: Artistic and Intellectual Practices Since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century vol.4, Beijing: Inside-Out Art Museum, 61 – 85.

A new Mandarin Chinese translation of Paul Gladston (2016), ‘Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): towards a discursive polylogue of international postmodernist and Chinese contemporary art theory’（当代性：论关于国际后现代主义艺术 理论和中国当代艺术理论的多方对话), in Gao, Minglu ed., Criteria-Method- Context (标准-方法-上下文), Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 37- 63. Includes essays by Hans Belting and Gao Minglu.