{"product_id":"9780857420879","title":"Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e, Meiling Cheng engages with such artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its post-Deng era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eitself 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, \u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008608649456,"sku":"9780857420879","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857420879_p0.jpg?v=1763828281","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857420879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}