Research Catalog

Title

• 三峡库区移民图 / 季雲飛.
• San Xia ku qu yi min tu / Ji Yunfei.

Author

• 季雲飛, 1963-
• Ji, Yun-fei, 1963-

Publication

[New York] : MoMA, [2010]

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council. pbl
• 荣宝斋 (Beijing, China). prt
• Rong bao zhai (Beijing, China) prt

Description

2 boxes (2 scrolls) : chiefly col. ill.; 48 x 10 x 10 cm., 36 x 9 x 9 cm.

Series Statement

[Contemporary editions ; 7th]

Uniform Title

Contemporary editions (Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council) ; 7th.

Alternative Title

• 季雲飛三峡库区移民图
• Ji Yunfei San Xia ku qu yi min tu
• Three Gorges Dam migration

Subject

• Ji, Yun-fei, 1963-
• San Xia shui li shu niu (China) > In art
• Migration, Internal > China > Yangtze River Gorges > Pictorial works
• Forced migration > China > Yangtze River Gorges > Pictorial works
• Rural population > China > Yangtze River Gorges > Pictorial works
• Dams > China > Yangtze River Gorges > Pictorial works
• Yangtze River Gorges (China) > In art

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States – 21st century.

Note

• "Printed in an edition of 108 copies, 20 deluxe copies, 7 deluxe copies for the artist and the Museum, and 30 artists' and printers' copies. The deluxe edition is presented in a hand-carved wooden box with an additional, original woodblock print"--Prospectus.
• Title and name of publisher from label on first scroll. Published by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art; cf. prospectus.
• Title in prospectus: The Three Gorges Dam migration.
• Edition statement from prospectus; series statement from publisher's Web site, retrieved Aug. 17, 2011; date of publication from artist's signatures in Spencer Coll. copy.
• Created in collaboration with Rong bao zhai, Beijing. Cf. prospectus.
• First scroll: Consists of a preliminary calligraphic inscription (on sheet 32 x 71 cm.), a single continuous image (ca. 35 x 306 cm.), and a calligraphic colophon (on sheet 39 x 82 cm.), followed by additional blank sheets, in traditional Chinese handscroll format. The whole is mounted on backing paper and on white silk; rolled over a glass rod and attached at beginning to blue silk wrapper, which is secured with an emboidered silk ribbon and a carved bone toggle. The entire scroll unrolls to ca. 44 x 975 cm. Image is hand-printed from ca. 500 pearwood woodblocks with Chinese watercolor ink on xuan zhi paper, created from blue sandalwood bark and bamboo and straw flbers. For discussion, reproduction of image and translation of colophon, cf. article by Katy Siegel in Art journal, v. 69, no. 3 (fall 2010), p. 73-78.
• Deluxe copies are accompanied by a second scroll, which contains the image and the colophon only, on paper (sheet is ca. 40 x 390 cm.).

Language (note)

• Text in Chinese.

Binding (note)

• First scroll is enclosed in a hand-carved wooden box with sliding top, lined in cushioned white satin; title and chop marks are incised in top and colored green and red. Second scroll is enclosed in a dark blue silk-covered box with hinged front and top, lined in cushed white satin and secured with 2 bone toggles; paper label on top.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 11-150

OCLC

748585669

Author

Ji, Yun-fei, 1963-

Alternate Script for Author

季雲飛, 1963-

Title

San Xia ku qu yi min tu / Ji Yunfei.

Alternate Script for Title

三峡库区移民图 / 季雲飛.

Imprint

[New York] : MoMA, [2010]

Edition

[Deluxe ed.].

Series

[Contemporary editions ; 7th]

Contemporary editions (Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council) ; 7th.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 7/20 of the deluxe ed. Each scroll is numbered 7/20, signed in pencil "Yun-Fei Ji" in Roman characters, and dated "2010."

Language

Text in Chinese.

Binding

First scroll is enclosed in a hand-carved wooden box with sliding top, lined in cushioned white satin; title and chop marks are incised in top and colored green and red. Second scroll is enclosed in a dark blue silk-covered box with hinged front and top, lined in cushed white satin and secured with 2 bone toggles; paper label on top.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy accompanied by prospectus, in English ([4] p.).

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Publisher's description

Alternate Script for Subject

三峡水利枢纽 (China) In art

Alternate Script for Subject

季雲飛, 1963-

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

China Beijing.

Added Author

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council. Publisher

Rong bao zhai (Beijing, China) Printer

Alternate Script for Added Author

荣宝斋 (Beijing, China). Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 11-150