Title: Zhang Peili : record. repeat. /
Authors: Cacchione, Orianna.; Li, Pi, 1974-; Grube, Katherine,; Farrell, Robyn,; Zhang, Peili, 1957-; Art Institute of Chicago
Year: 2017
Subjects: Zhang, Peili, Exhibitions.; Zhang, Peili,; Video art China Exhibitions.; ART Asian.; ART Film & Video.; ART Individual Artists Monographs.; ART Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions General.; ART History Contemporary (1945- ); Video art; China
Abstract: "Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (b. 1957) manipulates perspective, close-ups, and framing to create astonishing recordings of banal repeated actions, such as breaking glass, reading, washing, shaving, and blowing bubble gum. He is a pioneering figure, experimenting with a video camera in the late 1980s, exploring digital formats in the early 2000s, and developing large-scale, immersive scenes today. Despite Zhang's pivotal role in the global history of video art, his oeuvre has received relatively little attention. This book, which includes insightful essays, color plates, and an illustrated chronology, is one of the few in-depth explorations in English of this important artist's work"--
Contents: Sponsor -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Mechanisms of restraint : Zhang Peili's subversions of art & video / Orianna Cacchione -- Perpetual antagonism : tracing Zhang Peili's practice / Pi Li -- Zhang Peili : works in the exhibition / Robyn Farrell -- Zhang Peili & Chinese avant-garde art : a chronology / Katherine Grube -- Selected bibliography -- Photography credits.