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Northern Hebei landscape
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Description
This drawing depicts the landscape around the village of Shouliang Gou, where Xu Bing lived from 1974–1977 as an urban youth being re-educated during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). He drew in the evening after the day’s agricultural work was over. He initially drew portraits of the village residents, only later switching to landscapes.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province (Yanqing county) (place of creation)Asia › China › Hebei province (Yanqing county) (subject)
- Date
- December 1976
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
- Material and technique
- pencil and crayon on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 27 x 39.5 cm (height x width)
drawing 18 x 26 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.16
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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. 5 on p. 32, pp. 14, 39, 46, 55, illus. p. 32 fig. 5
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- returned to owner
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