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Beijing Xingwei : contemporary Chinese time-based art
- Title
- Beijing Xingwei : contemporary Chinese time-based art / Meiling Cheng.
- Author
- Cheng, Meiling, 1960-
- Publication
- London, England ; New York : Seagull Books, 2013.
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- Description
- xxiv, 486 pages : color illustrations, color portraits.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. This book engages with artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in the post-Deng era. The book, itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium, contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, the author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, this book provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-461) and index.
- Language (note)
- Glossary and some passages in Chinese.
- Contents
- Multicentric repasts -- Violent capital -- Limit zones -- Animalworks -- Indigestible commodities -- Keepsake morsels.
- ISBN
- 9780857420879 (paperback)
- 0857420879 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2014347540
- OCLC
- ocn788268658
- 788268658
- SCSB-5780527
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries