| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Series |
Rethinking art's histories |
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Rethinking art's histories.
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| Contents |
Front matter; Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Preface: On naming; Acknowledgments; Notes on Chinese-to-English translations; Glossary; Introduction: Locating global Ưcontemporary art in global China; From the ruins of heaven on earth; Shanghai's art in fashion; Biennialization-as-banalization, promotion, and resistance; Installing a world city; From Shanghai to New York by way of conclusion; Epilogue: Forgotten corners; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed December 2, 2020) |
| Subject |
Arts -- China -- Shanghai
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Art and society -- China -- Shanghai
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Popular culture -- China -- Shanghai
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Fashion -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
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Popular culture
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Manners and customs
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Fashion
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Art and society
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Arts
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Cultural policy
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| SUBJECT |
Shanghai (China) -- Cultural policy
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Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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| Subject |
China -- Shanghai
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526132611 |
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1526132613 |
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9781526132628 |
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1526132621 |
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1526139049 |
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9781526139047 |
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