{"product_id":"ren-hang","title":"Ren Hang","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9783836562072\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2017\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: TASCHEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRen Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017\u003c\/b\u003e, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefront \u003cb\u003eChinese artists' battle for creative freedom\u003c\/b\u003e. Like his champion Ai Weiwei, Ren was controversial in his homeland and wildly popular in the rest of the world. He said, \"I don't really view my work as taboo, because I don't think so much in cultural context, or political context. I don't intentionally push boundaries, I just do what I do.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why? Because his \u003cb\u003emodels, friends, and in his last years, fans, are naked, often outdoors, high in the trees or on the terrifyingly vertiginous rooftops of Beijing\u003c\/b\u003e, stacked like building blocks, heads wrapped in octopi, body cavities sprouting phone cords and flowers, whatever entered his mind at the moment. He denied his intentions were sexual, and \u003cb\u003ethere is a clean detachment about even his most extreme images: the urine, the insertions, the many, many erections\u003c\/b\u003e. In a 2013 interview VICE magazine asked, \"there are a lot of dicks ... do you just like dicks?\" Ren responded, \u003cb\u003e\"It's not just dicks I'm interested in, I like to portray every organ in a fresh, vivid and emotional way\u003c\/b\u003e.\" True though that may be, the penises Ren photographed were not just fresh and vivid, but unusually large, making one wonder just where he met his friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the same piece, Hang also stated, \"Gender isn't important when I'm taking pictures, it only matters to me when I'm having sex,\" making him a pioneer of \u003cb\u003egender inclusiveness\u003c\/b\u003e. Young fans still eagerly flock to his we","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":43355826126937,"sku":"PR916000","price":165.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2551\/5502\/files\/image_TIBIXYABPH2D.jpg?v=1779898671","url":"https:\/\/smartfox.co.nz\/products\/ren-hang","provider":"SmartfoxNZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}