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A Seed

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  • Description

    The composition of this print derives from an early sketch (LI2007.44). The tyre marks on the right are imprinted on a patch of seeds at the roadside, in the same way that Xu Bing’s early drawings refer to rather than depict the presence of people in a landscape. The whole, however, shows a different way of thinking about landscape representation and a new departure in Xu Bing’s work.

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    Series
    Nature
    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1985
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut
    Dimensions
    45 x 60 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.51

  • 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. 59 on p. 97, pp. 22, 77, 80, 81, illus. p. 22 fig. 7 & p. 97 fig. 59

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