Flowing Movement: The Material Imagination of Ian Boyden - Couverture rigide

Qianshen Bai

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ISBN 10 : 7807409029 ISBN 13 : 9787807409021

Editeur : Shanghai Cultural Press, 2012

Synopsis

Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at the Suzhou Museum, Flowing Movement: The Material Imagination of Ian Boyden explores the paintings, artist's books, and videos by American artist Ian Boyden. Authored by Qianshen Bai of Boston University, this book contains essays by Asian art historian Richard Barnahart of Yale University and independent artist Timothy C. Ely, as well as an extensive interview with the artist. Accompanied by numerous reproductions, the book provides a fascinating glimpse into how the work of an American artist was received and defined within China. Boyden works across multiple media including painting, sculpture, artist's books, photography, site-specific installations, and land art. Consistent across his productions is an intense interest in material relevance, place-based thought, and ecology, with a deep awareness of East Asian aesthetics. He studied for several years in China and Japan, and ultimately received degrees in the History of Art from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and Yale University. His work is interdisciplinary, and he often collaborates with a variety of scientists, poets, composers, and other visual artists. Boyden's work has been described as simultaneously geological and lyrical, industrial and mystical, dreamlike and archetypal. His art often links the literary, material, and visual imaginations, paying keen attention to how his work can shape ecological awareness. Boyden makes his own paints and inks, often from unusual materials such as meteorites, shark teeth, freshwater pearls, and carbon sourced from the aftermath of forest fires. Using the materials of his subjects to work his way into imaginal representations of the subjects establishes a direct link between material and subject-a new form of translation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Shanghai Cultural Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 7807409029
• ISBN 13: 9787807409021
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Nombre de pages: 198