适合人群:Historians, sociologists, urban planners, students of Chinese studies, individuals interested in Chinese culture and urbanization, Beijing locals, and general readers with an interest in understanding the social dynamics of cities.
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 artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in the 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.
ISBN:9780857420879
出版日期:2014-2-11 适合人群:Historians, sociologists, urban planners, students of Chinese studies, individuals interested in Chinese culture and urbanization, Beijing locals, and general readers with an interest in understanding the social dynamics of cities.