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Description

1 online resource (xx, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

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Series

Rethinking art's histories

Rethinking art's histories.

JSTOR EBA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and 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.

Note

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed December 2, 2020).

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.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Arts -- China -- Shanghai.

Art and society -- China -- Shanghai.

Shanghai (China) -- Cultural policy.

Popular culture -- China -- Shanghai.

Fashion -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century.

Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Arts -- Chine -- Shanghai.

Art et société -- Chine -- Shanghai.

Culture populaire -- Chine -- Shanghai.

ART -- Performance.

ART -- Reference.

ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )

Popular culture

Manners and customs

Fashion

Art and society

Arts

Cultural policy

China -- Shanghai

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

History

Other Form:

Print version: Lin, Jenny. Above sea. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019 1526132605 (OCoLC)1028587284

ISBN

9781526132611 (electronic bk.)

1526132613 (electronic bk.)

9781526132628

1526132621

1526139049 (electronic bk.)

9781526139047 (electronic bk.)

1526132605

9781526132604