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Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985

Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985

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Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Lee t...

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Product ID:	9780520393776
Product Form:	Hardback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Anxiety Aesthetics
Subtitle:	Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985
Authors:	Author: Jennifer Dorothy Lee
Page Count:	208
Subjects:	History of art, Oriental art, History of art, History of art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Art & design styles: from c 1960, China, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)
Description:	Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Lee traces a selection of historical events and controversies in late 1970s and early 1980s Beijing. Lee offers a fresh critical frame for doing symptomatic readings of protest ephemera and artistic interventions in the Beijing Spring social movement of 1978–80, while exploring the rhetoric of heated debates waged in institutional contexts prior to the '85 New Wave. Lee demonstrates how socialist aesthetic theories and structures continued to shape young artists' engagement with both space and selfhood and occupied the minds of figures looking to reform the nation. In magnifying this fleeting moment, Lee provides a new historical foundation for the unprecedented global exposure of contemporary Chinese art today.
Imprint Name:	University of California Press
Publisher Name:	University of California Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2024-02-06

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Weight	730 g
Dimensions	183 × 261 × 19 mm