Visual culture in Shanghai 1850s-1930s : edited with an introduction by Jason C. Kuo.
Author(s): Kuo, Jason C.,
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Visual culture in Shanghai 1850s-1930s
- Author(s)
- Kuo, Jason C.,
- Publisher
- Washington : New Academia Publishing, 2007
- Collation
- xvi, 356 pages : illustrations
24 cm - ISBN
- 9780978771386
- Dewey Class
- 700.951
- Contents
- Introduction -- Patronage and the beginning of a modern art world in late Qing Shanghai -- Uncommon themes and uncommon subject matters in Ren Xiong's Album after poems by Yao Xie -- Deliberate looks: Ren Bonian's 1888 Album of women -- The traditionalist response to modernity: the Chinese Painting Society of Shanghai -- Notes on Chinese photography and advertising in late nineteenth-century Shanghai -- Artwork, commodity, event: respresentations o the female body in modern Chinese pictorials -- The bare truth: nudes, sex, and the modernization project in Shanghai pictorials -- Shanghai women of 1939: visuality and the limits of feminine modernity -- Art deco and modernist art in Chinese calendar posters -- The Park Hotel in Shanghai: a metaphor for 1930s China -- The Shanghai gaze: visual culture and images of modernity.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art
Art, Modern
Artists
Art and society - BRN
- 10790
Notes
- The book is a study of meanings of Shanghai style through examination of paintings of the Shanghai school and other media of visual representation.
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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