Xiaobing Tang

Visual Culture in Contemporary China

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9781107084391
• ISBN-10: 1107084393
• Artikelnr.: 41416667

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.