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Houhai

  • loan

  • Description

    Houhai is a lake just beyond the north wall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the city of Xu Bing’s childhood and education, and his current home.

  • Details

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    Series
    Shattered Jade
    Associated place
    Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of creation)
    Date
    1983
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, with ink and colour; pencil inscription
    Dimensions
    16 x 16.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut,
    marked › written › hand-written
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.48

  • 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. 56 on p. 94, pp. 15, 18, 72, 86, illus. p. 94 fig. 56

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