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Fengtai, Beijing
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Description
In 1978 Xu Bing again went to Fengtai train depot, on this occasion to visit a friend who had been with him in Shouliang Gou during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), and subsequently assigned there as a railway worker. Though the subject is the workers’ housing, human figures are typically absent from Xu Bing’s drawing, and the focus is on the landscape elements.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (Fengtai) (place of creation)Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (Fengtai) (subject)
- Date
- March 1978
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
- Material and technique
- pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 26.9 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.18
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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. 7 on p. 34, pp. 16, 59, illus. p. 35 fig. 7
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- returned to owner
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