Tracing Contemporary Chinese Art: An Ethnographic Journey Through a Decade in Shanghai (1st ed. 2023) (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics)

By: Isaac Leung

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Synopsis: This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai. His immersion in China’s art world is grounded in a topology of places and new ways of writing and deploying history today. The ethnographic approaches to experiencing, analysing and representing space offer a critical tool to explore a different version of realism invisible in the nominal art and art history paradigms. As the market and institutional norms are still being defined, this book also documents and analyses how individuals have strived to negotiate boundaries in the art world and thus create unique selfhood. Instead of conventional methods of periodisation and stylistic analysis, this book presents a historiographic strategy emphasising the philosophical significance of spatial realism to offer insights into history, subjectivities and political institutions.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789819926688
Related ISBNs:: 9789819926671
Publisher:: Springer Nature Singapore
Date of Addition:: 12/15/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.