Zirou Zhang

Zirou Zhang is a PhD candidate in Art and Cultural Studies at the School of Arts, Nanjing University, and currently a visiting PhD student in the Department of Art History & Visual Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her research focuses on art philosophy and aesthetic theory, with particular attention to the “life-oriented turn” in contemporary art and its ecological interventions. Her doctoral dissertation is titled The Relationship Between Contemporary Art and the Lifeworld. She has participated in several key and major projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, undertaking sub-project research and academic writing. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in leading CSSCI journals and collected volumes such as Zhejiang Academic Journal, Art Theory and Art History Studies, and Literary and Art Criticism. Representative works include: “Three Aspects of the Relationship Between Form and Experience: Meyer Schapiro’s View of Artistic Autonomy”; “T.J. Clark’s Narrative of Modernism: The ‘Laocoön Moment’ of Utopian Modernity”; and “On the Intersubjective Mechanism of Artistic Interpretation: A Study Centered on Van Gogh’s A Pair of Shoes”.