{"product_id":"shadow-modernism-9780822369196","title":"Shadow Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Schaefer traces how early twentieth century photographic practices in Shanghai provided artists, writers, and intellectuals a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images, thereby showing how artists and writers used such practices to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is smart and rigorously researched, and the prose is immaculate. By sticking close to his objects of study, no matter how ambiguous, difficult, and distant, Schaefer shows us how Shanghai’s shadows strangely illuminate the cultural history of the city—and the practices of art history.\"  -- Lisa Claypool * CAA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Modernism and Photography's Places\u003cbr\u003e 1. Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. False Portals  61\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Landscapes of Images\u003cbr\u003e 3. Projected Pasts  113\u003cbr\u003e 4. Montage Landscapes  145\u003cbr\u003e 5. Shanghai Savage  180\u003cbr\u003e Notes  221\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  263\u003cbr\u003e Index  279","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406105223511,"sku":"9780822369196","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369196.jpg?v=1730494546","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shadow-modernism-9780822369196","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}