The image incorporates the Chinese characters 松 ‘pine’, 白 ‘poplar’, and 石 ‘stone’. The title is inscribed on this work using ‘square word calligraphy’.
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. 77a on pp. 140-145, pp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 77, 110, 117, 119, 129, 136, 137, 149, 158, illus. p. 4 fig. 1, p. 9, fig. 4, p. 126, fig. 3 & pp. 142, 144-145, fig. 73a
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