Screen LibrarySpectacle and the city : Chinese urbanities in art and popular culture /
As China becomes increasingly modern and urban, artists have responded by imagining the Chinese city at the intersections of the social, material, and political realities of modern life. This book explores how the city-as-spectacle has been visualized and contested in art and popular culture. Featur...
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Amsterdam University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cities and cultures ;
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| Summary: |
As China becomes increasingly modern and urban, artists have responded by imagining the Chinese city at the intersections of the social, material, and political realities of modern life. This book explores how the city-as-spectacle has been visualized and contested in art and popular culture. Featuring essays by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, Spectacle and the City is as broad as the terrain it covers: with essays by an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, as well as leading cultural critics, it goes beyond mainland China to include cities with cultural significance, |
| Item Description: | "Papers originally presented at a workshop hosted by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)"--Page 9. |
| Carrier Form: | 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789089644459 (paperback) : 9089644458 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | NA9000 |
| CLC: | D669 |
| Call Number: | D669/K662 |