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.
Sketchbook of Qinghai province landscapes
- loan
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Description
This sketchbook is one of several Xu Bing completed while travelling in northwest China in 1986. Though he sketched all the time during journeys this appears to be the only view drawn from a boat.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Qinghai province (place of creation)Asia › China › Qinghai province (subject)
- Date
- July 1986
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper; bound
- Dimensions
- 9.8 x 13.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.33.b
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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. 35b
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- returned to owner
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