| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Rethinking art's histories
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Rethinking art's histories.
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| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts -- China -- Shanghai.
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Arts. |
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China -- Shanghai. |
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Art and society -- China -- Shanghai.
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Art and society. |
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Shanghai (China) -- Cultural policy.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: LIN, JENNY. ABOVE SEA. [Place of publication not identified] : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2018 1526132605 (OCoLC)1028587284 |
| ISBN |
9781526132611 (electronic book) |
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1526132613 (electronic book) |
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9781526132628 |
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1526132621 |
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1526132605 |
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9781526132604 |
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