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Enactments Ser.: Beijing Xingwei : Contemporary Chinese Time-Based Art by Meiling Cheng (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Here, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. Title Beijing Xingwei. The author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSeagull Books
ISBN-100857420879
ISBN-139780857420879
eBay Product ID (ePID)117314917
Product Key Features
Number of Pages510 Pages
Publication NameBeijing Xingwei : Contemporary Chinese Time-Based Art
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
SubjectAsian / Chinese, Asian / General, General, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Performing Arts
AuthorMeiling Cheng
SeriesEnactments Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight37 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThere is no question in my mind that Cheng's Beijing Xingwei will be one of the most significant new releases of the next decade., Beijing Xingwei is richly situated at the crossroads of Chinese and US politics and culture. This kind of cross-cultural knowledge, information, and insight is absolutely invaluable for the newly burgeoning 'global' histories of contemporary art and performance to develop further., "There is no question in my mind that Cheng's Beijing Xingwei will be one of the most significant new releases of the next decade."
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal709.5109051
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Notes on Translation and Image Captions Preface: To You Who Read and Help Me Build This Book--Time Arcs in Five Flights Introduction: Cross-Millennial Chronicle Chapter 1: Multicentric Repasts Chapter 2: Violent Capital Chapter 3: Limit Zones Chapter 4: Animalworks Chapter 5: Indigestible Commodities Chapter 6: Keepsake Morsels Appendix: Ai Weiwei--From Faking, to Acting, to Believing, to... Glossary of Chinese Terms Works Cited Index
SynopsisFrom 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. In Beijing Xingwei , Meiling Cheng engages with such artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its post-Deng era. Beijing Xingwei-- 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, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, Beijing Xingwei provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.
LC Classification NumberN7345.6
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