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Stable and rural dwelling in Handan
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Description
This is a finished drawing of which several preparatory sketches also exist. Xu Bing produced it while preparing his degree project. Typically, it depicts no figures, and the water on the exterior of the ceramic drinking bowl at the left shows that a horse has recently drunk from it. The characters pasted onto the gatepost are part of an auspicious couplet, in a widespread rural custom.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province (Handan) (place of creation)Asia › China › Hebei province (Handan) (subject)
- Date
- 1980
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
- Material and technique
- charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 25 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.23
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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. 12 on p. 42, pp. 15, 16, 18, 44, illus. p. 43 fig. 12
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- returned to owner
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