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Sketchbook of Qinghai province landscapes
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Description
The sketch on this page opening was drawn in the vicinity of Longyang Gorge, where the cliffs rise more than 200 metres above the Yellow River. Xu Bing visited the region in 1985 and again in 1986. His sketchbooks from that time include drawings of local nomadic people in addition to landscapes.
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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)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.33.a
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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. 35a & 35b on p. 71, pp. 23, 24, illus. p. 71 figs. 35a & 35b
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- returned to owner
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