Ai Weiwei : Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE - 2010 CE
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26.6 x 19.2 cm.
  • 125 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9789881736772

Ai Weiwei : Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE - 2010 CE

Ai Weiwei, Richard Torchia, Gregg Moore, Zhuang Hui, Philip Tinari, Glenn Adamson, Dario Gamboni, Stacey Pierson

Ai Weiwei : Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE - 2010 CE

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Arcadia University Art Gallery, February 24 - April 18, 2010. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Craft, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, July 15 - October 30, 2010 ; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, October 2011 - March 2012. Texts by Richard Torchia, Gregg Moore, Zhuang Hui & Ai Weiwei, Philip Tinari, Glenn Adamson, Dario Gamboni, Stacey Pierson. Includes artist''s biography. "You get the idea early on, with photos of Chinese-born, New York-based artist Ai Weiwei dropping a 2000-year-old Han Dynasty urn. Oops. No, that''s the point. This exhibition catalog/monograph from Ai''s first solo exhibition outside New York gives a comprehensive picture of this unconventional artist''s approach to the undoing of assumptions about rare and old ceramics. Whether it''s his famous Coca-Cola vase (with the Coke logo painted over the ancient surface of the pot) or other violations of the surfaces of ancient artifacts, this is a clear expression of iconoclastic modernism. Includes the first English translation of an interview with Ai Weiwei, and an essay by the Beijing-based critic, Philip Tinari. Additonal essays by Glenn Adamson, Dario Gamboni and Stacey Pierson." -- publisher''s statement. Texts in English and Chinese.

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