Jenny Lin

Above sea (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526132628
• Artikelnr.: 55005970

Autorenporträt

Jenny Lin is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Locating global contemporary art in global China 1 From the
ruins of heaven on earth 2 Shanghai's art in fashion 3
Biennialization-as-banalization, promotion and resistance 4 Installing a
world city From Shanghai to New York by way of conclusion Epilogue:
forgotten corners Index