Creativity Class

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Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China

By Lily Chumley

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Creativity Class explores the transformation of China's visual culture industries over the past thirty years, focusing on art students' journeys from exam preparation to careers in the creative sector. Lily Chumley investigates how new ideologies of creativity shape personalities and styles in art education, tied to China's goal of fostering innovation within a "market socialist" economy. Combining ethnography, oral histories, and analysis of contemporary art and media, the book reveals the rise of a Chinese artistic vanguard and the growth of a creative, knowledge-based economy.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary Chinese culture, art education, innovation policy, and those studying the intersection of creativity and socio-economic change in post-socialist societies.

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The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion. New ideologies of creativity and creative practices have reshaped the training of a new generation of art school graduates. Creativity Class is the first book to explore how Chinese art students develop, embody, and promote their own personalities and styles as they move from art school entrance test preparation, to art school, to work in the country's burgeoning culture industries.

Lily Chumley shows the connections between this creative explosion and the Chinese government's explicit goal of cultivating creative human capital in a new "market socialist" economy where value is produced through innovation.

Drawing on years of fieldwork in China's leading art academies and art test prep schools, Chumley combines ethnography and oral history with analyses of contemporary avant-garde and official art, popular media, and propaganda. Examining the rise of a Chinese artistic vanguard and creative knowledge-based economy, Creativity Class sheds light on an important facet of today's China.

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Praised as "a fascinating study" by Choice, the book has been recognised for its valuable focus on art education and cultural creativity in contemporary China, supported by robust primary research, according to Paul Gladston in China Review International. Cong Zhang and Vanessa L. Fong in Political and Legal Anthropology Review commend Chumley’s insightful analysis of the contradictions within the art exam system amid broader educational and economic reforms.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691203096

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 25 b/w illus.

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 416

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Lily Chumley Non-Fiction

About the Author

Lily Chumley is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.