Landscape/landscript
Subtitle: nature as language in the art of Xu Bing
By: Shelagh Vainker ; with essays by Judith Goldman, Peter D. McDonald and Xu Bing
Contributors: Ashmolean Museum
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781854442697
Subjects: Exhibitions; Language and languages in art
Description: The importance of the written word in Chinese art - as inscription, decoration or calligraphy with brush and ink - is one of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese art. Here, Xu Bing examines the systems within the written language itself, illustrating how the visual elements articulate or create a relationship between the language user and the myriad objects around him.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 28th February-19th May 2013.

Map on inside covers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204).
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword; title: Introduction / Shelagh Vainker; title: Notes on Xu Bing's prints / Judith Goldman; title: The path to landscript / Shelagh Vainker; title: On early landscape influences / Xu Bing; title: Catalogue entries 1-71; title: Landscript / Shelagh Vainker; title: Landscript series / Xu Bing; title: Catalogue entries 72-77; title: Landscape and learning / Shelagh Vainker; title: On painting and teaching / Xu Bing; title: Catalogue entries 78-93; title: 'The space between': ways of looking at the art of Xu Bing / Peter D. McDonald; title: The sort of artist I am / Xu Bing; title: Xu Bing biographical timeline; title: Further reading; title: Acknowlegement.