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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       Subjects     Xu, Bing, 1955- Book from the ground.     Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Criticism and interpretation.     Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Interviews.     Visual communication in art.     Browse Catalog       by title:      The book about Xu Bi...         MARC Display

The book about Xu Bing's Book from the ground / Mathieu Borysevicz, editor. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, c2014. Subjects Xu, Bing, 1955- Book from the ground.   Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Criticism and interpretation.   Xu, Bing, 1955- -- Interviews.   Visual communication in art. ISBN:  9780262027427 Description:  167 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm Contents:  Pages from Book from the ground -- (What) are we reading? / Mathieu Borysevicz -- Regarding Book from the ground / Xu Bing -- Cross-cultural shift : from alphabets to pictographs / Haytham Nawar -- Extension from the ground : exhibition, etc. / Mathieu Borysevicz -- List of works -- Conversation from the ground in Shanghai : Xu Bing & Mian Mian / Kaimei Wang -- Icon lab -- Xu Bing's bio -- Contributors' bios -- Translation of Book from the ground. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Although the pictogram-only narrative in Xu Bing's Book from the Ground can be read by anyone, there is much more to the story of Xu Bing's wordless book than can be gleaned from icons alone. This companion volume to Book from the Ground chronicles the entire project, mapping the history of Xu Bing's novel creation from inspiration to exhibition to publication. In the 1980s, Xu Bing created Book from the Sky. Using garbled and nonsensical faux-Chinese characters, this installation expressed Xu's doubts about written language and provoked questions about the Chinese language. Thirty years later, with Book from the Ground, the artist expresses his hope for a single, universally understood language. Inspired by airport signs that communicate instantaneously through images--directing a temporary community of modern nomads where to eat, shop, sit, and find a bathroom--Xu began to collect images, icons, and logos from which he could construct a story. This book describes Xu's research, showing notebook pages and bulletin boards full of clipped-out images; offers commentary by the artist and discussions of reading, alphabets and languages; documents, with text and photographs, exhibitions and installations connected to the work (including a Book from the Ground pop-up concept store); provides a list of works; describes Xu's "icon lab"; and "translates" Xu's pictographic narrative into English."--Publisher's website.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 741.6 Xu Bo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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