Beijing Xingwei - Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art

Informationen zum Autor Born and raised in Taiwan, Meiling Cheng is a noted performance art critic and poet and has published widely in both English and Chinese. She is associate professor in the School of Theatre at University of Southern California and the author of In Other Los Angeleses : Multicentric Performance Art . Klappentext 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 years has invigorated contemporary global art movements. The author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. Zusammenfassung 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 years has invigorated contemporary global art movements. The author shows us how art can reflect! construct! confound! and enrich us.

Product details

• Authors: Meiling Cheng
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2013
• EAN: 9780857420879
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-087-9
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: SB - Enactments; Enactments; SB - Enactments; Enactments - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history