Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface Edited by Minna Valjakka and Meiqin Wang Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018 324 pp. €95.00; £85.00 ISBN 978-94-6298-223-9
Abstract:One of the most striking features of China's megacities is the ubiquity of construction and demolition in the urban landscape. This structural ephemerality has provoked a range of artistic responses from film-makers, photographers and visual artists keen to document the spatial transformations unfolding in the built environment. The subject of a growing body of scholarship, recent volumes including Wu Hung's Remaking Beijing (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Robin Visser's Cities Surround the Countryside (D… Show more
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