House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective (Signd copy)

Vergne, Philippe; Chong, Doryun; Fei Dawei; Huang Yong Ping; Hou Hanru

ISBN 10: 0935640827 / ISBN 13: 9780935640823

Edité par Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005

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(USA) 1st edition. SIGNED BY Huang Yong Ping in Chinese to the title page, no other markings, Fine. Yellow wraps, 96pp, then when flipped over, there is a cover with the title in Chinese, 112pp,colour photos and illus with smaller attached insert pages. Huang Yong Ping is a French contemporary artist and one of the most famous Chinese Avant-garde artists. Born in Xiamen, he was recognized as the most controversial and provocative artist of the Chinese art scene in the 1980s. Huang was one of the earliest contemporary Chinese artists to consider art as strategy. As a self-taught student, some of his earliest artistic inspirations came from Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Marcel Duchamp. He later graduated from art school in Hangzhou in 1982, and formed Xiamen Dada in 1986. A heavy book. (3.3 JM HOJ 301/6 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

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• Titre: House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective (Signd copy)
• Éditeur: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0935640827
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780935640823
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine
• Type de livre: Exhibition Catalogue.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Art, Graphic Design, Commercial Art
  • Z ZZB

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Synopsis

This first monograph to look back over Huang Yong Ping's work to date finally brings the full range of his accomplishments to an international audience. As a contemporary artist in China working with diverse traditions and new and ancient media, Huang has built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to national identity to recent history. He was once one of the leading figures of the Xiamen Dada movement--a collective of artists working to create a new Chinese cultural identity by bridging trends in Western modernism with Chinese traditions of Zen and Taoism. He continues to confront established definitions of history and aesthetics with sculptures and installations that draw on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy, juxtaposing traditional objects, iconic images, and modern references. House of Oracles echoes that blend by binding photographs, essays, and striking sketchbook pages, which are presented with translations of the artist's calligraphy, in a matte soft cover with two facing spines--it opens with the plates on one side and the essays and artist writings on the other.