| Art exhibition was introduced into China in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and gradually flourished in the Republic of China period.Its characteristics of openness and public changed the way of traditional Chinese art appreciation.In the course of development,the spaces and venues used for art exhibitions have also changed accordingly.However,the development of the exhibition noumenon and the important information of the changes of urban space and social life in modern Shanghai contained in the activity bearing space have not been fully paid attention to in the previous studies both on art exhibition and urban space.The spatial choice and spatio-temporal evolution in the development process of art exhibition is not only the representation of the characteristics of the development of art exhibition,but also reflects its dependence on different types of urban space conditions in urban development process,and reflects the process of its gradually integrating into the public entertainment life.Therefore,this research breakthrough the limitation of previous single discipline angle of view and technical means,integrate historical text and image materials of art exhibitions during the Republic of China period and digitze them.Then through introducing history geography information system(HGIS)technology,build the historical database for spatial and temporal analysis and visualization,in mining which contain abundant spatial information parsing art exhibition in the aspect of urban spatial development.Through quantitative analysis,the development of art exhibition from 1912 to 1949 is illustated into a detailed and comprehensive spatial process,and its special spatiol-temporal phenomenon combined with historical materials is analyzed and explained.It finally proves that during Republic of China,art exhibition developed from a carrier serving the dissemination and exchange of art ideas to a part of citizens’ social and cultural life.On the one hand,the choice of art exhibition venues contains the requirements of art communication and progress in the development of fine arts.On the other hand,integration into social life of the public was equally important.Different stages of art exhibition was supported by various social powers.As a result of the modernity of western culture spreading to the east,art exhibition still relied on the support of traditional social groups during its development.This also reflects the characteristics of the integration of tradition and modernity in the social life of modern Shanghai.This paper first introduces the origin of the research and the structure of the research problem.By combing the existing results of related research,the technical route of this research is established from the aspects of the deconstruction of the research problem,the selection and processing of the research data,and the research methodology.Then through the macro development of art exhibition,an overview of the whole process of research on mesosphere art exhibition categories within each time stage and the relationship between venue land properties and spatial distribution of area studies,as well as the micro level of some typical and representative urban space development and its relationship with the exhibition of fine arts development of these three aspects are discussed respectively.Finally,the paper summarizes the above three levels of discussion and summarizes the advantages of HGIS and its help in this study,as well as the development direction and potential of future research in urban history,social history and other directions. |