Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization - Brossura

Clarke, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1861891121 ISBN 13: 9781861891129

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 2001

Riassunto

This volume offers an account of recent and current art made in Hong Kong in the years leading up to the handover of British sovereignty to China in 1997. This process differed from many other experiences of the post-colonial elsewhere in the world in that it did not end in independence but in absorption into a much larger entity with an entirely different political system. Until now, the cultural aspects of this transition have not been given the attention they deserve, apart perhaps from the analysis of film. The author addresses this by considering a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation, as well as other kinds of visual production such as architecture, fashion, graphic design and graffiti. He shows how the approach of the handover heightened a sense of local identity, and how this found expression in the politicized art that became common at the time.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1861891121
• ISBN 13: 9781861891129
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224