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Book from the ground : from point to point / by Xu Bing.
Fine Arts Library N7433.4.X8 B66 2013
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xu, Bing, 1955- author, artist.
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' books.
- Icons (Computer graphics)--Fiction.
- Icons (Computer graphics).
- White collar workers--Fiction.
- White collar workers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Graphic novels.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages : all illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Symbols on title page: Dot, right arrow, man, right arrow, dot
- Place of Publication:
- North Adams, Massachusetts : Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- Text consists entirely of computer icons and other pictographic symbols.
- Summary:
- "Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct this narrative. The result is a readable story without words recording 24 hours in the day of the life of a typical urban white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual language, the text could be published anywhere without translation"--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Title from back cover.
- ISBN:
- 9780262027083
- 0262027089
- OCLC:
- 861323040
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