Above sea : contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai
by
Lin, Jenny, author.
Title
:
Above sea : contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai
Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
Author
:
Lin, Jenny, author.
ISBN
:
9781526132604
Personal Author
:
Lin, Jenny, author.
Physical Description
:
xx, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm.
Series
:
Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
Abstract
:
Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design - from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural complexes to cutting edge films and installations. Informed by years of in-situ research, the book looks beyond contemporary art's global hype to reveal the socio-political tensions accompanying Shanghai's transitions from semi-colonial capitalism to Maoist socialism to Communist Party-sponsored capitalism. Case studies reveal how Shanghai's global aesthetic constructs glamorising artifices that mask the conflicts between vying notions of foreign-influenced modernity and anti-colonialist nationalism, as well as the city's repressed socialist past and its consumerist present. --
Subject Term
:
Arts -- China -- Shanghai.
Art and society -- China -- Shanghai.
Popular culture -- China -- Shanghai.
Fashion -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century.
Geographic Term
:
Shanghai (China) -- Cultural policy.
Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | N7347 S48 L56 2019 | 10802661 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |