Above Sea - Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jenny Lin is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Lin
• Assisted by: Amelia Jones (Editor), Marsha Meskimmon (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781526132604
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3260-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup; Rethinking Art's Histories; Key Studies in Diplomacy; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries