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Sketchbook of landscapes from north west China
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Description
During the early 1980s Xu Bing made several trips to the mountains of Qinghai in northwest China. The drawing on this page opening depicts the area around Longyang Gorge, the steep and narrow ravine where the Yellow River enters the north China plain. It is the same area shown in the etchings he prepared on the spot in 1986.
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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
- 15.5 x 20.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.32
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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. 34 on p. 70, p. 71, illus. p. 70 fig. 34
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- returned to owner
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