Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai's former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by returning Chinese students who had directly encountered the movement in Paris and Tokyo. Shanghai surrealism adopted a dialectical form, resonating with the modus operandi of the Parisian movement as well as China's traditional belief system of Daoism. Reconciling the thought of Freud and Marx, Surrealism subsumed the multiple contradictions that divided Republican Shanghai, East and West, colonial and cosmopolitan, ancient and modern, navigating the porous boundaries that separate dream and reality. Shanghai surrealists were not rigid followers of their Parisian counterparts.
| ISBN: | 9789888842919 |
| Publication date: | 8th November 2024 |
| Author: | Lauren Walden |
| Publisher: | Hong Kong University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 152 pages |
| Genres: |
History of art Asian history |
Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai's former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by returning Chinese students who had directly encountered the movement in Paris and Tokyo. Shanghai surrealism adopted a dialectical form, resonating with the modus operandi of the Parisian movement as well as China's traditional belief system of Daoism. Reconciling the thought of Freud and Marx, Surrealism subsumed the multiple contradictions that divided Republican Shanghai, East and West, colonial and cosmopolitan, ancient and modern, navigating the porous boundaries that separate dream and reality. Shanghai surrealists were not rigid followers of their Parisian counterparts.
Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai features in the following genres: History of art, Asian history
Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai is available in Hardback
Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai was written by Lauren Walden and published by Hong Kong University Press
Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai has 152 pages
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