Above sea :: contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai /

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 insta...

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1. Verfasser: Lin, Jenny, 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:Rethinking art's histories.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781526132611
1526132613
9781526132628
1526132621
1526139049
9781526139047

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