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        "tombstone": "Public Grain, 2004. Yun-Fei Ji (Chinese, b. 1963), published by Harlan & Weaver. Color etching and aquatint; platemark: 71 x 62 cm (27 15/16 x 24 7/16 in.); sheet: 92.5 x 72.6 cm (36 7/16 x 28 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Judith and James A. Saks, 2005.257",
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        "title": "Public Grain",
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                "description": "chine coll\u00e9 on wove paper",
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        "measurements": "Platemark: 71 x 62 cm (27 15/16 x 24 7/16 in.); Sheet: 92.5 x 72.6 cm (36 7/16 x 28 9/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "lower margin, in graphite: 22/35; Yun-Fei Ji; 04",
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                    "id": 203084,
                    "title": "Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen",
                    "description": "<i>Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016).",
                    "opening_date": "2016-02-12T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 541557,
                    "title": "New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper",
                    "description": "<i>New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).",
                    "opening_date": "2023-11-19T05:00:00"
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 12, 2016 - July 31, 2016); \u201cJi Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen\u201d",
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        "description": "Chinese-born, New York-based artist Yun-Fei Ji works in the style and format of classical Chinese landscape painting, combining it with contemporary references. Here villagers have gathered large baskets of grain, but foreboding images, such as skeletons or ghosts wearing headdresses at left, and strange hybrid creatures at right, imply imbalance in the world. The artist\u2019s memories from his childhood in Maoist China surface in the form of a portrait of the communist leader, and a red banner, signifying communist propaganda of the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976). During that time, the government transformed the agrarian economy through wide-scale industrialization, displacing farm communities into <br>collectives for the production of steel.",
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                "citation": "Chung, Anita. \"Last Days of Village Wen: Tensions and contradictions abound in the work of contemporary artist Ji Yun-Fei.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 56, no. 1 (January/February 2016): 9-11.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 11; Mentioned: p. 10",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:02:52.042000"
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