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.
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Xu Bing's Version of Wang Shimin's 'Landscape of Morning Brightness Over Autumn Mountain'
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Description
The image incorporates the Chinese characters 草 ‘grass’, 窗 ‘window’, and 云 ‘cloud’. The title is inscribed on this work using ‘square word calligraphy’.
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Details
- Series
- The Suzhou Landscript
- Associated place
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North America › north America › United States of America › New York State › New York (place of creation)
- Date
- designed 2010 - printed 2012
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (designer)copyist of Wang Shimin (1592 - 1680) (artist)Jill Czarnowski (active c. 2012) (printer)Jason Miller (active c. 2012) (printer)Universarl Limited Art Editions (established 1955) (printmaker)
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Deuce II Editions (active c. 2012) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- frame 231.1 x 96.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Judith Goldman.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.76
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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. 77d on pp. 140-145, pp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 77, 110, 117, 119, 129, 136, 137, 149, 158, illus. p. 4 fig. 1, p. 9 fig. 4, p.127 fig. 6 & pp. 143-145 fig. 77d
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Location
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- returned to owner
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