| Above Sea: Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai Contributor(s): Lin, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526132605 ISBN-13: 9781526132604 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - History | Asia - China - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy |
| Series: Rethinking Art's Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 Shanghais 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. |