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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812423903321

Autore

Wue Roberta

Titolo

Art worlds : artists, images, and audiences in late nineteenth-century Shanghai / / Roberta Wue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Honolulu : , : University of Hawaiʻi Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

988-8313-28-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

709.51/13209034

Soggetti

Commercial art - China - Shanghai - 19th century

Artists - China - Shanghai - History - 19th century

Painting, Chinese - China - Shanghai - 19th century

Art and popular culture - China - Shanghai - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Shanghai painted fan: form, format, and function -- The Shanghai artist in advertising and mass media -- Shanghai illustrations: images and readers -- Picturing the Shanghai artist: subjects and audiences.

Sommario/riassunto

The growth of Shanghai in the late nineteenth century gave rise to an exciting new art world in which a flourishing market in popular art became a highly visible part of the treaty port's commercialized culture. Art Worlds examines the relationship between the city's visual artists and their urban audiences. Through a discussion of images ranging from fashionable painted fans to lithograph-illustrated magazines, the book explores how popular art intersected with broader cultural trends. It also investigates the multiple roles played by the modern Chinese artist as image-maker, entrepreneur, celebrity and urban sojourner. Focusing on industrially produced images, mass advertisements and other hitherto neglected sources, the book offers a new interpretation of late Qing visual culture at a watershed moment in the history of modern Chinese art.Art Worlds will be of interest to scholars of art history and to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modern China.