Exhibition Index

Shanghai
February 12, 2010 - September 5, 2010
[updated 3/2/10]

Object List Catalog PDF Didactics Ground Plans Can You Tell Me? Questions Walkthrough Part 1 Part 2

Object Notes: We have permission to use the catalog entries as object notes. They are extensive and are being added asap. To date: Cat: 1-128. Remember 4 posters have been replaced: Exhibition Object #97 (cat 108), 98 (cat 109), 99 (cat 110) & 111 (cat 111).

Shanghai Audio Tour - Script (new 1/15/10). Audio stops are linked on the ground plans. Object notes are linked from the script.

Shanghai Training - Jan 8, U-tube link
-- The video of Zhang Jianjun discussing his work, "Vestiges of a Process: Shanghai Garden" is now on
YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJZ1nz65y8 and on iTunes U under Shanghai.

Bibliography (AAM Library) Bibliography (AAM Bookstore) Bibliography (Michael Knight)

Shanghai Celebration - a Bay-Area-wide celebration in 2010. Shanghai Exhibition Press Release (new 1/15/10).

Shanghai explores, through the mirror of its art, the tumultuous history that has resulted in one of Asia’s most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities of today.

An American poet once wrote that “The artist is the antenna of the race.” For more than a century and half Shanghai artists have not only been documenting the city's many changes but also leading its way into the future. It is impossible to understand one of the world’s most intriguing cities without an awareness of its artists, or to understand its art without an awareness of the city’s history.

The exhibition features more than 120 oil paintings, Shanghai Deco furniture and rugs, revolutionary posters, works of fashion, movie clips, and contemporary installations. These artworks, drawn mainly from the collections of the Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Shanghai City History Museum, and the Lu Xun Museum, include the most significant visual documents of the city’s rich and ever-changing culture.

Shanghai is divided into four sections: Beginnings (1850–1912), High Times (1912–1937), Revolution (1920–1976), and Shanghai Today (1980–present).

The Asian Art Museum Page on this exhibit has many interesting features - please check it out here.

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