Above sea: Above sea (Rethinking Art's Histories)

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.

• | Author: Jenny Lin
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: October 06, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 152615157X
• | ISBN-13: 9781526151575