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Fengtai train junction, Beijing

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  • Description

    Xu Bing drew a number of industrial subjects early in his career. Fengtai train junction is in southwest Beijing. It is the site of China’s main train maintenance depot, established in 1892 and entrusted with Mao’s personal locomotive.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (Fengtai train junction) (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (Fengtai train junction) (subject)
    Date
    1977
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
    Material and technique
    pencil on paper
    Dimensions
    19.3 x 27.3 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.17

  • 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. 6 on p. 33, pp. 19, 46, illus. p. 33 fig. 6

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