TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crouch,Christopher
TI  - Contemporary Chinese visual culture: tradition, modernity, and globalization 
SN  - 9781604977219
AV  - N72.G55 C665 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Amherst, New York
PB  - Cambria Press
KW  - Art and globalization
KW  - China
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Art
KW  - Chinese
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Civilization
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
ER  -