Hung Liu : portraits of promised lands / Dorothy Moss ; with Nancy Lim, Lucy R. Lippard, Elizabeth Partridge, and Philip Tinari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Hung, 1948-2021, artist.

Moss, Dorothy, author.

Contributor:

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution, publisher.

Lim, Nancy (Curatorial assistant), writer of supplementary textual content.

Lippard, Lucy R., contributor.

Partridge, Elizabeth, contributor.

Tinari, Philip, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liu, Hung, 1948-2021.

Painting, Chinese--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, Chinese.

Painting, Chinese--21st century--Exhibitions.

Portrait painting, Chinese--20th century--Exhibitions.

Portrait painting, Chinese.

Portrait painting, Chinese--21st century--Exhibitions.

Chinese in art--Exhibitions.

Chinese in art.

Painting from photographs--Exhibitions.

Painting from photographs.

Chinese American artists--Exhibitions.

Chinese American artists.

Women artists--United States--Exhibitions.

Women artists.

United States.

Liu, Hung, 1948-2021--Exhibitions.

Liu, Hung.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Portraits of promised lands

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"'Hung Liu : Portraits of Promised Lands' presents the multilayered work of this contemporary Chinese American artist, whose paintings have established new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often sourcing her subjects from photographs, Liu (b. 1948) elevates overlooked individuals by amplifying the stories of those who have historically been invisible or unheard. This richly illustrated book examines six decades of Liu's painting, photography, and drawing. Dorothy Moss illuminates the importance of family photographs in Liu's work ; Nancy Lim examines the origins of Liu's artistic practice ; Lucy R. Lippard explores issues of identity and multiculturalism ; and Elizabeth Partridge focuses on Liu's recent series based on Dorothea Lange's Depression-era photographs. Philip Tinari conveys Liu's impact on contemporary art, and artists Judy Chicago, Amy Sherald, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others, reflect on the significance of he work. Having lived through war, political revolution, exile, and displacement, Liu paints a complex picture of an Asian Pacific American experience. Her portraits speak powerfully to those seeking a better life, in the United States and elsewhere."--taken from back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Director's Foreword / Kim Sajet

Interface: Hung Liu's Family Portraits and Their Afterlives / Dorothy Moss

Picturing the Cultural Revolution: Hung Liu's Early Work / Nancy Lim

Plates: Part I

Hung Liu: China Trade / Lucy R. Lippard

Deeply Familiar: Hung Liu and Dorothea Lange / Elizabeth Partridge

Hung Liu: Passer-by / Philip Tinari

Plates: Part II

Artists' Reflections / Liu Xiaodong

Chronology / Jeff Kelley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.

Local Notes:

Published to accompany the exbition Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (August 27, 2021-May 29, 2022).

ISBN:

9780300257441

0300257449

OCLC:

1198556697

Publisher Number:

99989801149