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Three sketches of crops

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  • Description

    The compositions of these small sketches are similar to some of the small woodcuts and, like those, their subjects are agricultural. The two at the left show stones for separating rice and corn, familiar in European agriculture; the sketch on the right shows an essentially Chinese loess trench planted with rice.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1980 - 1985
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper
    Dimensions
    14.5 x 19.5 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.
    LI2007.36

  • 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. 38 on p. 76, pp. 69, 77, illus. p. 76 fig. 38

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