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Beyond the Great Wall

  • loan
  • Description

    This print depicts the region where Xu Bing was sent to live during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a scene that can also be found in some of his sketches elsewhere in this gallery.

  • Details

    Series
    Shattered Jade
    Associated place
    AsiaChinaHebei province Beijing (place of creation)
    AsiaChina Hebei province (Shouliang Gou) (subject)
    Date
    1983
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, with ink and colour; pencil inscription
    Dimensions
    16.7 x 15 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.47
  • 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. 55 on p. 93, pp. 15, 18, 72, 77, 80, 86, illus. p. 93 fig. 55

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