Absurdism in the Representation of Chinese Avantgarde Art

The standard argument for absurd includes a discrepancy between expectations and reality and becomes an unavoidable perception if regarded sub specie aeternitatis. Admittedly, after the fundamental doubt has begun to seek ultimate justification, a human being’s rational impulse remains. Here the experience of Chinese Avantgarde art is analyzed from the standpoint of absurdism. This article aims to rephrase the avantgardist experimentation as an expression of Hegelian “unhappy consciousness” due to the uncanny China-West encounter. The final representation is a domestic theatre of the absurd.