Above Sea : Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai
by
Jenny Lin
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Rethinking Art's Histories
ISBN-10
1526132605
ISBN-13
9781526132604
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2018
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 24.10 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Art & design styles: from c 1960Cultural studies
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A counter-touristic guide to one of the world’s fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by exploring the cross-cultural histories and creative conflicts buried beneath Shanghai’s glamorous cosmopolitan façades. -- .
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.
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