Above Sea
Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai
Seiten
2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5157-5 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5157-5 (ISBN)
A counter-touristic guide to one of the world’s fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by exploring the cross-cultural histories and creative conflicts buried beneath Shanghai’s glamorous cosmopolitan façades. -- .
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. -- .
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. -- .
Jenny Lin is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California -- .
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 -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Rethinking Art's Histories |
Zusatzinfo | 13 colour illustrations and 30 black & white illustrations |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 399 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
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ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5157-X / 152615157X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5157-5 / 9781526151575 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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