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Liu Ye : the book paintings.
Fine Arts Library ND1049.L585 A4 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liu, Ye, 1964- artist, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liu, Ye, 1964---Exhibitions.
- Liu, Ye.
- Liu, Ye, 1964---Interviews.
- Artists--China--Exhibitions.
- Artists.
- Painting, Chinese--21st century.
- Painting, Chinese.
- Books in art.
- Liu, Ye, 1964-.
- China.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Interviews
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Book paintings
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : David Zwirner Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- The Beijing-based artist Liu Ye is known for his precise, deftly rendered representational paintings. Drawn equally from contemporary culture and old master painting, Liu's wide-ranging visual touchstones include Piet Mondrian, Miffy the Bunny, and Prada advertisements. In this new publication devoted to his book paintings, the artist examines the book as both a physical object and cultural totem. Playing with geometry and perspective, Liu creates extraordinary and disorienting portraits of this most familiar subject. Liu's Book Painting series, begun in 2013, depicts close-up views of books that are turned open to reveal empty pages, an approach that emphasizes the object's form over its content. Rendering books' material structure--endpapers, binding, spine--in sensual detail, these paintings indicate an obsession with the book as an object and a lifelong love of literature. Liu's father was a children's book author who introduced him to Western writers at a young age, fueling his curiosity and imagination. Many of the books in Liu's father's collection were banned in Cultural Revolution-era China and the artist read them secretly throughout his childhood. This formative experience figures in his popular Banned Books series and in his book paintings in general.
- Contents:
- Reading at the limit / Zhu Zhu
- The book paintings / Liu Ye
- In conversation / Hans Ulrich Obrist, Liu Ye
- List of works.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Liu Ye: the book and the flower" held at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, October 29-December 19, 2020
- ISBN:
- 1644230364
- 9781644230367
- OCLC:
- 1336595478
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