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Above sea : contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai
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:
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. --
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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