E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten
Reihe: Rethinking Art's Histories
Lin Above sea
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3262-8
Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai
E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten
Reihe: Rethinking Art's Histories
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3262-8
Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
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.
