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Distorting Mirror: Chinese Visual Modernity
Distorting Mirror: Chinese Visual Modernity
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"The Mirror" focuses on China's turbulent period from the 1880s to the 1930s, analyzing how Chinese urban subjects interact with emerging visual culture. Media and visual forms examined in this book include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theater performance. The small citizens actively participated in this visual culture, eager for the promise of modernity: bringing novelty, excitement and trends to people.
Peng Lijun carefully analyzes the developmental trajectory of these visual representations, emphasizing the interaction between various visual forms. This book points out that various visual forms are not discrete cultural phenomena, but constantly interact to form Chinese visual modernity and influence the culture of the time in all aspects.
The discussion in this book begins with lithography in the late nineteenth century, comprehensively surveying its history, deriving relevant theories, and examining modernity's obsession with truth. Subsequent chapters highlight the obsession with the female body in the new visual culture, examine how survey culture was born in entertainment venues, and illustrate how ordinary citizens understand and interact with the new reality.
Peng Lijun carefully analyzes the developmental trajectory of these visual representations, emphasizing the interaction between various visual forms. This book points out that various visual forms are not discrete cultural phenomena, but constantly interact to form Chinese visual modernity and influence the culture of the time in all aspects.
The discussion in this book begins with lithography in the late nineteenth century, comprehensively surveying its history, deriving relevant theories, and examining modernity's obsession with truth. Subsequent chapters highlight the obsession with the female body in the new visual culture, examine how survey culture was born in entertainment venues, and illustrate how ordinary citizens understand and interact with the new reality.
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