{"table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "title": "A Conversation  -- Christopher Phillips, Wu Hung, and Artur Walher", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Life and Dreams  -- Christopher Phillips", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Plates.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Essays.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Ruins as Autobiography  -- Wu Hung", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "New Framework  -- Rong Rong", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "New Photo and Its Historical Conditions  -- Wu Hung", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Enlightenment through a dark lens  -- Karen Smith", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "One and Thirty  -- Stephanie H. Tung", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "From the Illusory to the Political  -- James D. Poborsa", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "A History of Erasure  -- Sze Tsung Nicol\u00e1s Leong", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "A Spatial Film  -- Christopher Phillips", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "A Conversation between Yang Fudong and Wu Hung --", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Media in No Man's Land  -- Xin Wang", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Notes on \"New Media\" -- Lu Yang.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Since the early 1990s, photography and media art have rapidly come to occupy significant places in Chinese contemporary art. Life and Dreams : Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art shows the widespread adoption of photography, video, and digital imaging by successive generations of Chinese artists, as seen in a range of visually inventive and emotionally charged works. Many of them reflect the artists' immediate responses to the unprecedented changes that have swept through China in recent decades, transforming not just the urban landscape, but also key aspects of social relations and everyday life. Some of the most recent media works employ elaborately imaginative and fantasy-driven means to suggest where those changes may ultimately lead the country and its inhabitants\""}, "isbn_10": ["3958294901"], "subject_times": ["20th century", "21st century"], "lc_classifications": ["N7345.65.M85 L544 2018", "TR654 .L544 2018", "TR646"], "key": "/books/OL26976323M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL7544238A"}, {"key": "/authors/OL3229449A"}], "subtitle": "contemporary Chinese photography and media art", "contributions": ["Wu Hung, 1945- editor, contributor", "Steidl Verlag", "Walther Collection"], "subjects": ["Chinese Art", "Video art", "New media art", "Exhibitions", "Photography", "Artistic Photography", "History"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "pagination": "384 pages", "source_records": ["marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run06.mrc:202633564:4484", "bwb:9783958294905", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-028.mrc:405326:3984", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_030.bib.mrc:118392192:7929"], "title": "Life and dreams", "dewey_decimal_class": ["779.0951/0744337"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Catalog of an exhibition held at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany, May 13-November 18, 2018.\n\nIncludes bibliographical references (pages 360-365)."}, "number_of_pages": 384, "isbn_13": ["9783958294905"], "edition_name": "First edition.", "subject_places": ["China"], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223126170324"], "publish_date": "2018", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "edited by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung ; featuring works by Ai Weiwei [and forty-three others] ; essays by Christopher Phillips [and eight others] ; conversations by Christopher Phillips [and three others]", "oclc_numbers": ["1050448670"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL19763321W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "publishers": ["Steidl", "The Walther Collection"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-31T09:27:18.318765"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-31T16:59:04.856046"}}