An edition of Selling happiness (2004)
Selling happiness
calendar posters and visual culture in early twentieth-century Shanghai
By Ellen Johnston Laing
Publish Date
2004
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Language
eng
Pages
313
Description:
"As the first substantial investigation of commercial art in China, Selling Happiness explains how the early twentieth century Chinese public came in accept Western style art as mainstream and the heretofore ignored process by which the Chinese art world became (in some sectors at least) thoroughly cosmopolitan. A monumental study of the most important genre of modern Chinese commercial art, this volume will appeal not only to historians of Chinese art but also to those interested in literary, economic, and social history. It will be an essential resource for comparative studies of visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Advertising, Calendars, Chinese Posters, Commercial art, History, Posters, Posters, Chinese
Times: 20th century