Contemporary Chinese visual culture : tradition, modernity, and globalization / edited by Christopher Crouch.

Contributor(s): Crouch, Christopher [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: xvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781604977219 (hardback)Other title: Tradition, modernity, and globalization [Portion of title]Subject(s): Art and globalization -- China | Art and society -- China | Art -- Chinese -- 21st century | China -- CivilizationLOC classification: N72.G55 C665 2010
Contents:
Part I: Understanding Chinese Visual Tradition.
Part II: Education in the Arts.
Part III: Transforming Tradition.
Part IV: Cultural Transformation and the Media.
Subject: This book examines three overarching themes: Chinese modernity's (sometimes ambivalent) relationship to tradition at the start of the twentieth century, the processes of economic reform started in the 1980s and their importance to both the eradication and rescue of traditional practices, and the ideological issue of cosmopolitanism and how it frames the older academic generation's attitudes to globalisation. It is important to grasp the importance of these points as they have been an important part of the discourse surrounding contemporary Chinese visual culture. As readers progress through this book, it will become clear that the debates surrounding visual culture are not purely based on aesthetics--an understanding of the ideological issues surrounding the appearance of things as well as an understanding of the social circumstances that result in the making of traditional artifacts are as important as the way a traditional object may look. Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture is an important book for all collections dealing with Asian studies, art, popular culture, and interdisciplinary studies. amazon.com/Contemporary-Chinese-Visual-Culture-Globalization/dp/1604977213
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"For my colleagues Deng Qiyao, Liu Shimin, and Wang Xuning for their counsel."

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 397-400).

Part I: Understanding Chinese Visual Tradition.

Part II: Education in the Arts.

Part III: Transforming Tradition.

Part IV: Cultural Transformation and the Media.

This book examines three overarching themes: Chinese modernity's (sometimes ambivalent) relationship to tradition at the start of the twentieth century, the processes of economic reform started in the 1980s and their importance to both the eradication and rescue of traditional practices, and the ideological issue of cosmopolitanism and how it frames the older academic generation's attitudes to globalisation. It is important to grasp the importance of these points as they have been an important part of the discourse surrounding contemporary Chinese visual culture. As readers progress through this book, it will become clear that the debates surrounding visual culture are not purely based on aesthetics--an understanding of the ideological issues surrounding the appearance of things as well as an understanding of the social circumstances that result in the making of traditional artifacts are as important as the way a traditional object may look. Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture is an important book for all collections dealing with Asian studies, art, popular culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

amazon.com/Contemporary-Chinese-Visual-Culture-Globalization/dp/1604977213