Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China : : Urbanized Interface / / ed. by Minna Valjakka, Meiqin Wang.

This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Asian Cities ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.) :; 65 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Engagement with the Urban
  • Part I. Representations
  • From Sidewalk Realism to Spectral Romance
  • 2. Urban History from Below
  • 3. The Transient City
  • 4. Shadow of the Spectacular
  • 5. China Dreaming
  • Part II. Urban Interventions
  • 6. Urban Insertion as Artistic Strategy
  • 7. Cao Fei's 'Magical Metropolises'
  • 8. Relocating Further or Standing Ground?
  • 9. Out of Service
  • 10. Translocal Site-Responsiveness of Urban Creativity in Mainland China
  • Index