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. 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.
510 pages | 100 color plates, 36 halftones | 7 1/2 x 9 | © 2013
Art: Art--General Studies
Asian Studies: General Asian Studies
Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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