'Intoxicating Shanghai' - An Urban Montage: Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines During Shanghai's Jazz Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52536-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: China Studies

In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bevan, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Typographie, Illustrationskunst, Werbegraphik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Bevan is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. From 2018 to 2020, he was Christensen Fellow in Chinese painting at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. His first book, A Modern Miscellany, was published by Brill in 2015.