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• Title:Above sea : contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai / Jenny Lin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lin, Jenny, author.
  
• Published/Created:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
  

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  • Call Number: N7347.S48 L56 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arts--China--Shanghai.
  Art and society--China--Shanghai.
  Popular culture--China--Shanghai.
  Fashion--China--Shanghai--History--20th century.
  Shanghai (China)--Cultural policy.
  Shanghai (China)--Social life and customs--20th century.
  
• Description:xx, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Rethinking art's histories.
  
• Summary: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. -- .
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1526132605 hardback
  9781526132604 hardback
  9781526132628 (ePub ebook)
  9781526132611 (PDF ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Locating global contemporary art in global China
  1. From the ruins of heaven on earth
  2. Shanghais art in fashion
  3. Biennialization-as-banalization, promotion, and resistance
  4. Installing a world city.