{"product_id":"anxiety-aesthetics-jennifer-dorothy-lee-9780520393776","title":"Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985","description":"\u003ci\u003eAnxiety Aesthetics \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Dorothy Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520393775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520393776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 6.70w x 0.70d","brand":"Jennifer Dorothy Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44829424287999,"sku":"9780520393776","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_613f8ef7-d623-449e-a426-23fe7a919126.jpg?v=1708450761","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anxiety-aesthetics-jennifer-dorothy-lee-9780520393776","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}