Tracing Contemporary Chinese Art

An Ethnographic Journey Through a Decade in Shanghai
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-981-99-2667-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Reihe: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics

This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai. His immersion in China’s art world is grounded in a topology of places and new ways of writing and deploying history today. The ethnographic approaches to experiencing, analysing and representing space offer a critical tool to explore a different version of realism invisible in the nominal art and art history paradigms. As the market and institutional norms are still being defined, this book also documents and analyses how individuals have strived to negotiate boundaries in the art world and thus create unique selfhood. Instead of conventional methods of periodisation and stylistic analysis, this book presents a historiographic strategy emphasising the philosophical significance of spatial realism to offer insights into history, subjectivities and political institutions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leung, Isaac

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Rockbund Art Museum—A museum’s history of the present.- Chapter 3: Long Museum and Yuz Museum—A heterotopic vision mediated by billionaires.- Chapter 4: Art districts—A reflection on the fate of Chinese cities.- Chapter 5: Commercial gallery—A reinvention of self in the ‘charismatic-networked game’.- Chapter 6: In-between spaces—A global adventure for collectors and curators.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Isaac Leung is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also a practicing artist, curator, and scholar in art and culture.