| Above Sea: Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai Contributor(s): Lin, Jenny (Author), Meskimmon, Marsha (Editor), Jones, Amelia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 152615157X ISBN-13: 9781526151575 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - History | Asia - China |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.87 lbs) 200 pages |
| 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 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. |