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Author Chan, Pedith Pui, author

Title The making of a modern art world : institutionalisation and legitimatisation of guohua in republican Shanghai / by Pedith Pui Chan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 374 pages) : illustrations
Series China studies ; Volume 37
China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 37.
Contents Introduction: the hierarchy of Shanghai's art world -- Institutionalisation as practice: societies, periodicals, and colleges -- The appropriation of new cultural capital: art exhibitions -- The business of art: the art market
Summary The Making of A Modern Art World' explores the artistic institutions and discursive practices prevailing in Republican Shanghai, aiming to reconstruct the operational logic and the stratified hierarchy of Shanghai's art world. Using 'guohua' as the point of entry, this book interrogates the discourse both of 'guohua' itself, and the wider discourse of Chinese modernism in the visual arts. In the light of the sociological definition of 'art world', this book contextualizes 'guohua' through focusing on the modes of production and consumption of painting in Shanghai, examining newly adopted modern artistic practices, namely, art associations, periodicals, art colleges, exhibitions, and the art market
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of London, 2009) under the title: The making of a modern art world : the institutionalisation of guohua in Shanghai, 1929-1937
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2018)
Subject Art and society -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
Art -- Economic aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century
Art -- China -- Shanghai -- Societies, etc
ART -- General.
Art and society
Art -- Economic aspects
Art -- Societies, etc.
China -- Shanghai
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016056973
ISBN 9789004338104
9004338101