Above sea: Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai
Year: 2020 Language: english Author: Amelia G. Jones, Marsha Meskimmon Genre: Technical book Publisher: Manchester University Press Edition: 1st ed. ISBN: 152615157X Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 207 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.
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Above sea: Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai
Year: 2020
Language: english
Author: Amelia G. Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
Genre: Technical book
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 152615157X
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 207
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.
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