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Reading space : the art of Xu Bing / edited by Carolyn C. Guile ; with contributions by Gao Minglu [and others].
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English
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Hamilton, NY : Dept. of Art and Art History, Colgate University, 2009.
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68 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Words in art
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Xu, Bing 1955-
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Themes, motives
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Colgate University. Department of Art and Art History
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Summary note
In this solo exhibition at the Clifford Gallery curated by Carolyn Guile, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, Chinese artist Xu Bing (b. 1955, Chongqing, Sichuan province, China), winner of a MacArthur "genius grant" (1999), presents fifteen works drawn from the last twenty years that explore the interpretability of text and image, including a portion of A Book from the Sky (1987). Emerging from his position as witness to the Cultural Revolution in China, Xu Bing has created works that engage the public and private act of reading. The exhibition continues A Year of Chinese Art at Colgate sponsored by the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts and made possible in part by the generous support of Robert H.N. Ho '56. Examples of Xu Bing's early work, emerging from the Chinese woodblock printmaking tradition, are currently on view in the exhibition, Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2998: Toward a Universal Language, co-curated by Joachim Homann and Renee Covalucci at Colgate's Picker Art Gallery through April 26, 2009. Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing will be accompanied by an illustrated scholarly catalogue with contributions by Gao Minglu, Jerome Silbergeld, and Carolyn Guile.
Notes
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Jan. 19-Mar. 5, 2009, Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (page 68).
Contents
Preface / Rebecca S. Chopp
Bookends and endgames in the art of Xu Bing / Carolyn C. Guile
Xu Bing's art: making the meaning (less) to serve people / Gao Minglu
Words, words, words, and the method in it: the madness of Xu Bing / Jerome Silbergeld
Xu Bing in his own words: excepts from a lecture delivered at Colgate University November 10, 2008
Timeline: selected events and exhibitions
Exhibition checklist.
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ISBN
9780981953007 ((alk. paper))
098195300X ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2009923918
OCLC
539072369
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