Product details
- ISBN 9781783204533
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 229 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A photo collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the urban spatial politics of their respective regions, Lu Pan explores how graffiti in East Asia reflects the relationship between aesthetics and politics. The book situates itself in a contested dynamic relationship among human bodies, visual modernity, social or moral norms, styles, and historical experiences and narratives. On a broader level, this book aims to shed light on how aesthetics and politics are mobilized in different contested spaces and media forms, in which the producer and the spectator change and exchange their identities.
Lu Pan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
