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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript

(from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013)

Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Detail of Family Plots, by Xu Bing, Beijing, 1988 (Museum no. LI2007.61)
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View of farm buildings across a field

  • Description

    The content and composition of this drawing are remarkably similar to small watercolour Xu Bing drew just over a century later, depicting a scene near his home at Peking University.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Europe France (Gréville) (place of creation)
    Europe France (Gréville) (subject)
    Date
    6 August 1871
    Artist/maker
    Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) (artist)
    Material and technique
    graphite, black chalk or crayon, pen, and brown ink, touched with green, blue-green, and red crayon on wove paper
    Dimensions
    sheet 17.8 x 22.5 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Percy Moore Turner, 1951.
    Accession no.
    WA1951.25
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 19 on p. 54, pp. 16, 52, 155, illus. p. 54 fig. 19

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