Visual Culture in Contemporary China - Paradigms and Shifts

Informationen zum Autor Xiaobing Tang is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on twentieth-century Chinese literature, visual arts, and cultural politics. He has published in Chinese and English on a broad range of topics and different cultural texts. His English publications include Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde (2008) and Chinese Modern (2000). In 2011, he guest-curated Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints for the University of Michigan Museum of Art and edited the exhibition catalogue. Klappentext Explores China's rich visual culture from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present day. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a wealth of prints! posters! films and paintings! Xiaobing Tang's beautifully illustrated full-colour study traces the contemporary visual culture of China within a global and historical context! from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 through to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; A brief timeline of relevant events; Introduction: toward a short history of visual culture in contemporary China; 1. How was socialist visual culture created? Part I. Revelations of an Art Form: 2. How was socialist visual culture created? Part II. Revelations of a History Painting: 3. What do we see in New China cinema?; 4. What does socialist visual experience mean to contemporary art?; 5. How (not) to watch a Chinese blockbuster; 6. Where to look for art in contemporary China?; Conclusion: seeing China from afar; Glossary; Filmography; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaobing Tang, Xiaobing (University of Michigan Tang
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107446373
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44637-3
• No. of pages: 287
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; China, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural history, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Asian History, Oriental art