weiwei artist (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Weiwei Ai (Artist), MIT Press Ltd. Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's "tofu-dregs engineering"), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for "fraud" by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English-the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language. The New York Times called Ai "a figure of Warholian celebrity." He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous "Bird's Nest" stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art "lifetime achievement award" in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his "citizen investigation" of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Oversized Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

First edition. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. As-new.

First edition. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. New in shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Signed by Ai Weiwei on title page. Book cover has moderate rubbing and one small tear to top edge on rear side, otherwise still looks bright and presentable. Strong binding, pages are clean and bright. Overall a great collector's copy. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Oblong folio, approx 11 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches tall, in publisher's gray cloth lettered in black (AS NEW, in original shrinkwrap, contents unexamined).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Edition of 800. Folio, approx 11 1/2 inches tall, text in Chinese and English, 140pp, photographic illustrations, in publisher's pictorial papered boards bearing a close-up image of wood grain, lending the appearance of the book being made of wood, and lettered in black and white, a manufactured corner-cut at top corner, with all edges stained black (hint of wear to corners, else tight, near fine). An unusually attractive book design.

697 pages (= 349 singleside printed sheets of slightly-grey paper), with many wholepage photographic illustrations (often black and white, some colour, incl. some pages of chinese calligraphy) and many - partly foldout - tipped-in colour plates; Text in Chinese and English, (3) pages colophone. - Bookblock loose in titled and blindstamped strong-cardboard folder with flaps, in the titled publisher's thick brown-cardbord-box; oblong-Folio (ca. 37 x 27 x 5 cm; ca. 3,15 kg.). *** FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE HEAVY ORIGINAL OF THE ELABORATE-DESIGNED OEUVRE-CATALOGUE, WITH BINDING-FOLDER AND BOX. - Transport-box slightly used and beside the printed title at top with another handwritten title at one small side; folder slightly bumped at top-of-spine left-corner and rear-panel upper-left corner which leads to a slight bending (not 'folding') at upper sharp corner of the last sheets of the bookblock; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE IMPRESSIVE PUBLICATION; *) some sources mention text-contributions by Ai Weiwei and Pi Li, however both are not mentioned in the introduction or the colophone. . . isbn 7536233000.

203:305 mm.