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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)
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Paintingfront

© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the title page of the The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled by Wang Gai in conjunction with Wang Shi, Wang Nie, and Zhu Sheng. It is volume 1 of an edition of 23 volumes, probably a reprint of an edition printed in Kyoto (1812–1817). The use of green is unusual, and may indicate a trial printing though these were typically in red. Xu Bing also printed a red version of The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll. The column of characters on the right of this title page is written in the form of script used on ancient bronzes. The second character down, here part of a place name, is the word for ‘water’ that Xu Bing uses for rivers in his landscripts.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (possible place of publication)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (possible place of publication)
    Date
    1812 - 1817
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Associated people
    after Li Yu (1610 - 1680) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    print; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26.4 x 17.6 x 1.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26.2 x 31.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed,
    bound
    Object type index
    visual representation › print,
    communications equipment › book
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.1

  • 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. 79 on p. 162, pp. 151, 163, illus. p. 162 fig. 79

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