Coral dictionary vol. 1 : 2019 - 2022 / Chang Yuchen = Shan hu ci dian, juan yi : 2019-2022.
Coral dictionary vol.1 : 2019-2022 Chang Yuchen = 珊瑚辞典 · 卷一 : 2019-2022

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Yuchen, 1989- artist.

Contributor:

Li, Alvin, writer of introduction.

Local Philadelphia: Ulises Bookstore Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Chinese

English

Malay

Subjects (All):

Artists' books--Specimens.

Artists' books.

Coral--In art.

Coral.

Malay language--Dictionaries.

Malay language.

Chang, Yuchen, 1989-.

Chang, Yuchen.

Genre:

Artists' books.

Physical Description:

216 pages, 84 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 13 cm

Edition:

Second printing.

Other Title:

Shan hu ci dian, juan yi 2019-2022

Kamus : dictionary

Place of Publication:

New York ; Beijing : Gong Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English, Malay, and Chinese.

Summary:

"The Coral Dictionary project, 2019-, is Chang Yuchen's onging attempt to assemble a writing system for the Malay language using pieces of coral she found and collected during a residency on Dinawan Island, Malaysia... Each piece of the work on paper depicts a sentence - quoted from a Chinese-Malay two-way dictionary the artist came across during the reidency - in four languages: English, Chinese, Malay, and Chang's coral vocabularies. Chang considers these sentences abstract 'micro-fictions' that command audiences to conjure a sense of the depicted world through their own experiences. The Coral Dictionary is a poetic investigation into the nature of language and the language of nature ..." -- Alvin Li, About the Project, Inside dust jacket.

"This is the first time that the Coral Dictionary project is literally presented in the format of a dictionary and the first volume of the publication Coral Dictionary here includes 217 Malay-coral words compiled and translated by Chang Yuchen from 2019 to 2022." -- Publisher's description, Inside dust jacket.

Notes:

Title from spine.

Artist's book printed on sky blue paper in an exposed binding with a separate folded blue paper dustjacket (26 x 26 cm folded to 13 x 26 cm) with introductory text printed on the inside.

Second edition of 300, published March 2024.

ISBN:

9798989992379

OCLC:

1532790719