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Art worlds : artists, images, and audiences in late nineteenth-century Shanghai by Roberta Wue is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Art worlds : artists, images, and audiences in late nineteenth-century Shanghai about?

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. Book jacket

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Roberta Wue
Publisher
University of Hawaiʻi Press/HKU Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9789888313280
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Art, Arts

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