Above Sea : Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai
by
Jenny Lin
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Rethinking Art's Histories
ISBN-10
152615157X
ISBN-13
9781526151575
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2020
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
410 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 23.30 x 2.00 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 Chinas 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 arts global hype to reveal the socio-political tensions accompanying Shanghais transitions from semi-colonial capitalism to Maoist socialism to Communist Party-sponsored capitalism. Case studies reveal how Shanghais global aesthetic constructs glamorising artifices that mask the conflicts between vying notions of foreign-influenced modernity and anti-colonialist nationalism, as well as the citys repressed socialist past and its consumerist present.
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