Shanghai: Art of the City
Softcover: $37.50
Hardcover: $49.00
Featuring more than one hundred objects, including oil paintings, Shanghai Deco furniture and rugs, revolutionary posters, works of fashion, movie clips, and contemporary installations—drawn mainly from the collections of the Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Shanghai History Museum, the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, and the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre—Shanghai: Art of the City explores, through the mirror of its art, the tumultuous history that has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today.
An American poet once wrote that “The artist is the antenna of the race.” For more than a century and a half Shanghai artists have not only been documenting the city’s many changes but also leading its way into the future. It is impossible to understand the city without an awareness of its artists, or to understand its art without an awareness of the city’s history. Lavishly illustrated, this volume is the first in English to present an accessible and comprehensive approach to such an understanding.
300 pp., 10 x 13 in., approx. 175 color illustrations, bibliography, index
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