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Tracing Contemporary Chinese Art: An Ethnographic Journey Through a Decade in Shanghai

Tracing Contemporary Chinese Art: An Ethnographic Journey Through a Decade in Shanghai

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The book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in Shanghai, focusing on the topology of places and new ways of writing and deploying history today. It offers a critical tool to explore a different version of realism invisible in the nominal art and art history paradigms and documents and analyses how individuals have strived to negotiate boundaries in the art world and create unique selfhood.

Format: Hardback
Length: 154 pages
Publication date: 14 November 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore


The author's ten-year ethnographic journey in various locations in Shanghai is the focus of this book. His immersion in China's art world is based on a topology of places and innovative methods of writing and deploying history today. The ethnographic approaches to experiencing, analyzing, and representing space provide a critical tool for exploring a different version of realism that is invisible in the nominal art and art history paradigms. As the market and institutional norms are still being defined, this book also documents and analyzes how individuals have strived to negotiate boundaries in the art world and thus create unique selfhood. Instead of conventional methods of periodization and stylistic analysis, this book presents a historiographic strategy that emphasizes the philosophical significance of spatial realism to offer insights into history, subjectivities, and political institutions.


Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789819926671
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023

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