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A Home in the Northwest
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Description
This print shows an ancient form of housing local to one of the many areas in which Xu Bing travelled in the early 1980s, a scene that can also be found sketches elsewhere in this gallery.
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Details
- Series
- Shattered Jade
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of creation)Asia › China › Shaanxi province (Shaanbei) (subject)
- Date
- 1982
- Artist/maker
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Xu Bing (born 1955) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- woodcut, with ink and colour; pencil inscription
- Dimensions
- 17.2 x 15.3 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
- Accession no.
- LI2007.4
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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. 54 on p. 92, pp. 15, 18, 23, 72, 84, 86, illus. p. 92 fig. 54
Past Exhibition
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- returned to owner
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