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Zheng Guogu: Cross Back and
Forth Quickly
Date: May 2003
Language: English and Chinese
Images: 300+
Pages: 384
Dimensions: 27 x 20 cm
Retail Price: $ 35.00
The blur of visual materials literally
bleeding off each magazine-weight page are meant to be dis-orienting,
as are the myriad excerpts, quotes, essays, transcripts of phone
discussions, interviews and blurbs that intervene in the experience,
fade into the page or jump out at the reader in every imaginable
font, weight and color. This artist book succeeds in deconstructing
the book, makes a linear reading impossible, and yet remains thoroughly
enjoyable as it conveys the reader into the Pearl River Delta
world of Zheng Guogu.
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Yang Yong
Date: June 2002
Language: English and Chinese
Color Images: 120+
Pages: 140
Dimensions: 26 x 21cm
Retail Price: $ 25.00
This book is the first monograph of photographer,
Yang Yong, odds-on favorite to win one of the top prizes at this
year's Arles Photo Festival. The stellar list of authors who have
chosen to write on his works is testament to the importance of
his work and this book . . . .
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Chinese Maximalism
Date: March, 2003
Book Language: English and Chinese
50+illus., 124 pages
Dimensions: 28 x 21
Price: US$ 15.00
This exhibition catalog, accompanying
the recent large-scale exhibition at the China Millennium Monument
Art Museum (Beijing), provides a survey of contemporary 'abstract
art' in China, an ambitious undertaking by the renowned curator
and critic Gao Minglu (University of Buffalo). Gao deconstructs
terms like 'abstract' and 'realistic" in his introductory
essay in which he writes: "In China there exist paintings,
installations, photographic works that appeal to Chinese sensibilities
and conceptions, and which contain elements that might be labeled
'abstract. But their abstraction is different from abstraction
in the Western sense.'"
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The Chinese: Liu Zheng Photos
Date: 2000
Language: English and Chinese
30+30 images
Dimensions: 28.5 x 28.5
Price: US$ 20.00
This box of 30 printed photos is from an epic
seven-year photography project entitled 'The Chinese' recently
completed by Beijing-based photographer Liu Zheng. His square-format
portraits sometimes project a dark vision of mainland Chinese
people today, focusing on religion and rural folk customs, the
dead, the aged, the injured, and the dying; handicapped people,
urban and rural poor, factory and industrial workers, nudes, sex
and the sex industry; prisoners; man-made landscapes, and historical
tableaux.
Liu Zheng's works have been selected for exhibition
at the Venice Biennale and the Arles Photo Festival both in 2003.
Outside of a few comments on the box by prominent art and photo
critics, there is not accompanying texts. But, then the photos
speak for themselves.
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Paris
- Pekin
Date:October, 2002
Language: French/English/Chinese
200+ Illus., 288 pages
Dimensions: 28 X 24.5
Price: US$ 60.00
This tri-lingual (French, English, Chinese) softcover
catalog was published by Chinese Century in association with the
blockbuster exhibition of the collection of Miriam and Guy Ullens
at the Espace Cardin. With texts by the curator, Chang Tsong-zung
and assistant curator, Jean Marc Decrop, and contributions by
Fei Dawei, Henri Francois Debailleux, the catalog is yet another
must buy. Over 150 color images are accompanied by texts from
various sources, expertly edited by Claire Hsu, Asian Art Archives
and Susan Acret, former Art Asia Pacific Editor.
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China:
Contemporary Art
Date: July, 2002
Language: French/English/Portuguese
200+ Illus., 275 pages
Dimensions: 32.5 X 24.5
Price: US$ 60.00
This beautifully produced, large-format, hardback
catalog was published in association with the exhibition by the
same title held in Museo de Arte Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Essays by curator, Jean Marc Decrop and contributors Britta Erickson,
Karen Smith and Zhang Li contextualize the broad and varied selection
of artists and artworks that participated in the show. A Must
buy for those interested in the latest developments in Chinese
contemporary art.
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Wang
Guangyi
Date: August, 2002
Language: Chinese & English
112 Illus., 202 pages
Dimensions: 28.5 X 24.5
Price: US$ 36.00
This large format, bilingual book looks at one of the giants of
Chinese contemporary art, Wang Guangyi. Over 200 pages of texts
and images form a rich tapestry of imagery, ideas and ideology,
the elements of the artist and his art as they have developed
over the last 17 years.
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On the
Mid-Ground Hou Hanru
Date: March, 2002
Language: English
300+ b&w Illus., 60+ color illus., 290 pages
Dimensions: 21 X 16
Price: US$ 26.00
Hou Hanru is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic and innovative
curators and critics on the contemporary art scene today. This
excellent selection, edited by the critic and writer Yu Hsiao-Hwei,
brings together for the first time some of Hou Hanru's most important
texts that address questions of globalisation, identity and contemporary
art practice beyond geographical and regional boundaries.
--Gilane Tawadros, Director, Institute of International Visual
Arts (inIVA)
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Fuck
Off (buhezuo fangshi)
Date: November, 2000
Language: Chinese & English
191 Illus., 198 pages
Dimensions: 21.1 X 24.9 X 1.6
Price: US$ 49.50
Published by Ai Weiwei (Grey Cover Book, etc.), this "satellite"
exhibition catalog is as provocative as it is well-documented
and professionally printed. If you thought the exhibition was
shocking, wait till you see the participating artists' other works.
Say what you will about the meat and bodies, this is the most
comprehensive document to date of these young experimental artists
and their work.
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Chinese
Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and
West
Date: November, 2001
Language: English
200 Illus., 337 pages
Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5
Price: US$ 29.95
Chinese Art at the Crossroads is
the second book in a series on Contemporary Chinese Art. This
book is an edited compilation of the essays which appeared on
the site 'Chinese-art.com' during the year 2000. Edited by Professor
Wu Hung, University of Chicago, Crossroads is a valuable resource
for those working as an art professional, art academic or for
any one generally interested in understanding more about the changes
occurring in Chinese art today.
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Chinese
Art at the End of the Millennium
Date: November, 2000
Language: English
104 Illus., 262 pages
Dimensions: 15.5 x 22.9 x 1.6
Price: US$ 28.00
Comprised of over 40 articles, essays
and texts from Chinese-art.com, this book is for those who prefer
the printed page or may not have the time to read articles on
the web. Edited by John Clark, it is the first of its kind every
published on the subject of Chinese contemporary art.
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Fang
Lijun
Date: 2001
Language: Chinese/English
75+ Illus., 214 pages
Dimensions: 35 X 28.5
Price: US$ 49
Fang Lijun is one of the most important representatives
of post '89 New Wave art in China. Presented here is a publication
featuring large vibrant images of the artists paintings and woodcuts
documenting the artist career to date. Introductory essays by
Li Xianting, Pi Li, Shu Kewen are also featured.
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Existence
in Translation: Cang Xin
Date: May, 2002
Language: Chinese/English
200+ Illus., 200 pages
Dimensions: 20 X 15
Price: US$ 9.00
Existence in Translation is the monograph covering
the work of Chinese performance artist Cang Xin over the last
10 years, from his 'Trampling Faces' series, to his most recent
'Communication' series, which was recently exhibited at the Sydney
Bienale to his most recent critically acclaimed 'Identity Exchange'
series.
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Zhang Dali
Introduction: Mathieu Borysevicz
Published by: The Courtyard
Gallery
Date: 1999
Language: Chinese & English
173 Illus.
155 pages
Dimensions: 30.0 X 25.0 X 1.5
Price: US$ 35.00
The most comprehensive book every
assembled on this prolific and important graffitist/artist. Many
of the artist's graffiti works in the book have been razed along
with the old buildings they enclose to make room for new real
estate developments. Mathieu Borysevicz provides eloquent comment
on the significance of this artist and his works. Highly recommended.
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