La revista TransAsia Photography Review ( Volume 5, Issue 2, Spring 2015) ha publicat un artícle del membre d'InterAsia Xavier Ortells-Nicolau titulat "Gray Pastoral: Critical Engagements with Idyllic Nature in Contemporary Photography from China".
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«It is beyond the scope of this paper to consider the arguments and
reasons for contemporary views on “nature,” but they offer the context
for an examination of vernacular notions of idyllic nature in the work
of some of the most prominent contemporary photographers from China.
What follows, then, is a discussion in which the photographers Wang
Qingsong, Yang Yongliang, and Zhang Kechun, going beyond what Roetz
terms the “cliché of ‘harmony’ between man and nature in China” (2010,
200), offer layered visualizations of landscapes and natural settings in
dialogue with intellectual and aesthetic notions of the pastoral
retreat. In so doing, these photographic works activate entry points for
current discussions about contemporary visual culture from the
standpoint of eco-aesthetics and ecocriticism.»
