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Ai Weiwei  Cover Image Book Book

Ai Weiwei / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Doris Krystof, Falk Wolf.

Summary:

Everything is art. Everything is politics, says internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei. His statement informs this comprehensive book that features sculptural installations, photographs, and videos from every aspect of the artist's forty year career and touches on many contemporary social issues. The works featured in the book include Straight, Ai's gigantic installation made from 150 tons of rebar salvaged from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which comments on governmental corruption and negligence, and Sunflower Seeds for which the artist filled the enormous Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern with 100,000,000 porcelain seeds, each made by Chinese craftspeople. Also highlighted are his most recent works addressing the refugee crisis, such as Laundromat and Life Cycle; his provocative ventures into social media; and several early works. Wide-ranging and penetrating, this collection of Ai's most important work to date illustrates the depth of his conviction that art is most powerful when it raises awareness and incites change.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9783791359069 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: Munich : Prestel Verlag, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 18-September 1, 2019.
Formatted Contents Note:
Interview: Hans Ulrich Obrist--Ai Weiwei -- The aesthetics of quantity and the inverted readymade / Falk Wolf -- Calling for reinforcement / Rembert Hüser -- Ai Weiwei and the politics of life / Friederike Sigler -- "Don't harbor illusions about me"--identity and self-staging in the work of Ai Weiwei / Doris Krystof -- Material aspects in the work of Ai Weiwei / Linda Walther.
Subject: Ai, Weiwei > Exhibitions.
Ai, Weiwei > Interviews.
Art, Chinese > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Genre: Exhibition catalogs.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch 700.411 Ai 31681010172377 NONFIC Available -


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