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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Main Author: Lin, Jenny 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2019
Series:Rethinking art's histories
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Summary: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. --
Physical Description:xx, 177 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen (black and white, and color) 24 cm
ISBN:1526132605
9781526132604

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