The Art of Mu Xin
Subtitle: The Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes
Contributors: Richard Barnhart (Contributor); Jonathan Hay (Contributor); Hung Wu (Contributor)
Publisher: YU Art Gallery
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780300090758
Subjects: Art styles: c 1960 -; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Exhibition Catalogs; Art; Art & Art Instruction; China; Asian; History - General; Art / History / Asian; Mu Xin; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; 1927-; Exhibitions; Mu Xin,
Description: "Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading artist-intellectuals of the Chinese diaspora. Now living in New York City, he is known for his complex writings and paintings. A formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, Mu Xin is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities and intellectual traditions. This beautifully illustrated catalogue focuses on a group of thirty-three landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted between 1977 and 1979, in the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Many of these works have never been exhibited or published in the West. In addition, the book features Mu Xin's Prison Notes, sixty-six sheets that were written when the artist was in solitary confinement in China in 1971-72."--BOOK JACKET.