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Xu Bing : Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999-2011 / John B. Ravenal ; with essays by Wu Hung, Lydia H. Liu, and Edward D. Melillo.
Fine Arts Library N7349.X8 A76 2011
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ravenal, John B., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xu, Bing, 1955- Tobacco project--Exhibitions.
- Xu, Bing.
- Site-specific installations (Art)--Exhibitions.
- Site-specific installations (Art).
- Tobacco in art--Exhibitions.
- Tobacco in art.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999-2011
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond [Va.] : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ; Charlottesville [Va.] : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- In the exhibitions of the Tobacco Project Duke 2000, the Tobacco Project Shanghai 2004, and the Tobacco Project Virginia 2011 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Chinese artist Xu Bing explored the history, materials, behavior, and signs and symbols of tobacco through his creations of art objects made of cigarettes, tobacco leaves, cigarette boxes, advertisements, and other tobacco and cigarette ephemera. Some examples include whole tobacco leaves printed with text, compressed blocks of dried tobacco embossed with cigarette slogans, and a tiger-print rug made of cigarettes. In addition to color photos of installations and art objects on every page, the book includes essays on the project and its context, the artist's life and career, the steps of the artist's research and production processes, and the role of Colonial Virginia in the global tobacco trade 1612-1776. The book also provides a timeline of the project and an artist's biography. Ravenal is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The book is distributed in the US by the University of Virginia Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Tobacco as a universal language / John B. Ravenal
- Xu Bing's Tobcco Project in Virginia: a timeline
- Xu Bing's Tobacco Project and its context / Wu Hung
- Fragrant mourning: thoughts on Xu Bing's Tobacco Project / Lydia H. Liu - A land "wholly built upon smoke": Colonial Virginia and the making of the global tobacco trade, 1612-1776 / Edward D. Melillo
- Tobacco Project 1, 2, 3 / Xu Bing.
- Notes:
- Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., Sept. 10-Dec. 4, 2011.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 091704696X
- 9780917046964
- OCLC:
- 741273758
- Publisher Number:
- 99948211874
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