Above Sea : Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai
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| Title: | Above Sea : Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Jenny Lin |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Popular culture--China--Shanghai, Arts--China--Shanghai, Art and society--China--Shanghai, Fashion--China--Shanghai--History--20th century |
| Categories: | ART / History / 20th & 21st Century, HISTORY / Asia / China |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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