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Ai Weiwei / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Doris Krystof, Falk Wolf.
Fine Arts Library N7349.A5 A4 2019c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hüser, Rembert, author.
- Sigler, Friederike, author.
- Walther, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Ai, Weiwei--Exhibitions.
- Ai, Weiwei.
- Ai, Weiwei--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ai, Weiwei--Themes, motives.
- Ai, Weiwei--Interviews.
- Art, Chinese--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Chinese.
- Conceptual art--China--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Conceptual art.
- Political art--China--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Political art.
- Politics in art--Exhibitions.
- Politics in art.
- Art--Political aspects--China--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Dissident art--China--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Dissident art.
- Dissenters, Artistic--China--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Dissenters, Artistic.
- Male artists--China--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Male artists.
- Art--Political aspects.
- Themes, motives.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- China.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Düsseldorf, Germany : Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen ; Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, with translations from the German.
- Summary:
- Everything is art. Everything is politics, says internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei. His statement informs this comprehensive book that features sculptural installations, photographs, and videos from every aspect of the artist's forty year career and touches on many contemporary social issues. The works featured in the book include Straight, Ai's gigantic installation made from 150 tons of rebar salvaged from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which comments on governmental corruption and negligence, and Sunflower Seeds for which the artist filled the enormous Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern with 100,000,000 porcelain seeds, each made by Chinese craftspeople. Also highlighted are his most recent works addressing the refugee crisis, such as Laundromat and Life Cycle; his provocative ventures into social media; and several early works. Wide-ranging and penetrating, this collection of Ai's most important work to date illustrates the depth of his conviction that art is most powerful when it raises awareness and incites change.
- "'Everything is art. Everything is politics.' The internationally renowned contemporary artist Ai Weiwei thus sums up the concepts underlying his work. It is also the leitmotif of his largest exhibition to date in Europe. With texts and images, this catalog demonstrates the close interweaving of political commitment and artistic work in the œuvre of this important, controversial artist who lends form to the contradictions of our present times. Born in Beijing in 1957, Ai Weiwei is celebrated worldwide as an artist, architect, curator, film director, and photographer. The Conceptual and Pop art he countered in New York in the 1980s became crucial influences on his working method, which critically examins cultural history and global social developments." --publisher's description, lower cover.
- Contents:
- Interview: Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Ai Weiwei
- The aesthetics of quantity and the inverted readymade / Falk Wolf
- Calling for reinforcement / Rembert Hüser
- Ai Weiwei and the politics of life / Friederike Sigler
- "Don't harbor illusions about me"
- identity and self-staging in the work of Ai Weiwei / Doris Krystof
- Material aspects in the work of Ai Weiwei / Linda Walther.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 18-September 1, 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Ai Weiwei" : May 18-September 1, 2019, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
- Contains:
- Ai, Weiwei. Works. Selections (2019)
- ISBN:
- 3791359061
- 9783791359069
- OCLC:
- 1086562715
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