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Chinese-born, U.S.-based artist Xu Bing (born 1955) makes epic, language-based sculptures, books and installations that are frequently inspired by China's rich heritage of print culture and bookmaking. This beautifully designed volume records his acclaimed work "Tianshu" (or "Book from the Sky"). "Tianshu" consists of four volumes of unreadable "Chinese" characters printed in a traditional Chinese style from 4,000 hand-carved pieces of wood type. (The number of invented characters was based on the actual number of characters in common usage in China.) It took Xu Bing four years to carve the type and create the characters for this extraordinary work, which he first conceived in 1986 as "a book that no one would ever be able to read." The volume includes Xu Bing's own account of the work's genesis, as well as extended commentary by a range of scholars.
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Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Tianshu: Passages in The Making of a Book by Katherine Spears, John Cayley and Xu BingThis is the most comprehensive study on Tianshu to date, focusing on both the bibliographic and technical details of the work. The text contains new essays by Xu Bing (published both in Mandarin and in translation), John Cayley (Brown University), Professor Lydia Liu (Columbia University) and Professor Haun Saussy (Yale University). It also includes an essay from 1994 on Xu Bing's 'nonsense writing' by Professor Wu Hung (University of Chicago), a detailed bibliographic description of the Tianshu and a thorough exhibition history. The condition of the book is good and the pages inside the book are clean. Cop. Codice articolo 455365
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