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Author Wue, Roberta, author.

Title Art worlds : artists, images, and audiences in late nineteenth-century Shanghai / Roberta Wue.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) : illustrations (some color)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index.
Contents The Shanghai painted fan : form, format, and function -- The Shanghai artist in advertising and mass media -- Shanghai illustrations : images and readers -- Picturing the Shanghai artist : subjects and audiences.
Summary The growth of Shanghai in the late nineteenth century gave rise to an exciting new art world in which a flourishing market in popular art became a highly visible part of the treaty port's commercialized culture. Art Worlds examines the relationship between the city's visual artists and their urban audiences. Through a discussion of images ranging from fashionable painted fans to lithograph-illustrated magazines, the book explores how popular art intersected with broader cultural trends. It also investigates the multiple roles played by the modern Chinese artist as image-maker, entrepreneur, celebrity and urban sojourner. Focusing on industrially produced images, mass advertisements and other hitherto neglected sources, the book offers a new interpretation of late Qing visual culture at a watershed moment in the history of modern Chinese art.Art Worlds will be of interest to scholars of art history and to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modern China.
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Subject Art and popular culture -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century.
Art and popular culture.
China -- Shanghai.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Painting, Chinese -- China -- Shanghai -- 19th century.
Painting, Chinese.
Artists -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century.
Artists.
Commercial art -- China -- Shanghai -- 19th century.
Commercial art.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 2014035786 9789888208463
ISBN 9789888313280 electronic book
9888313282 electronic book
9789888208463
9780824851385 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No. 99962914130