Research Catalog

Title

Ai Weiwei.

Author

Ai, Weiwei

Publication

• London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marlow, Tim, 1963-
• Locke, Adrian
• Tancock, John L.
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Description

237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 31 cm

Summary

Artist, designer, architect, author, publisher, and curator: Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is a truly 21st-century creative, influential across a variety of media. During his childhood, criticism of his father's poetry--he was labeled as a dissident--meant that Ai and his family were exiled to a remote region of China for 16 years. Following the death of Chairman Mao, Ai left to train as an artist in Beijing and New York. Ai is today an artist of global stature, and his strong social conscience has galvanized a generation of Chinese artists. With works that touch on topics such as imprisonment, borders, and disaster, Ai has often found himself in conflict with the Chinese authorities. Ai Weiwei is published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Royal Academy in London--the largest showing of Ai's work to date. This volume includes installations and artworks specially created for the exhibition, an interview with Ai by Tim Marlow, and contributions from a team of scholars, analyzing the variety of Ai's output and concerns.

Subjects

• Architects
• Artists
• Ai, Weiwei
• Exhibition catalogs
• Architects > China > Exhibitions
• Ai, Weiwei > Exhibitions
• Ai, Weiwei > Interviews
• Interviews
• China
• Artists > China > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.

Note

• Published on occasion of the exhibition "Ai Weiwei" held at Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 19-December 13, 2015.
• Exhibition curators: Tim Marlow, Adrian Locke.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-229) and index.

Contents

Ai Weiwei in conversation / Tim Marlow -- Born radical / John Tancock -- Architecture can also be silent / Daniel Rosbottom -- Chronology / Adrian Locke -- Catalogue plates / with section introductions by Adrian Locke.

Call Number

JQG 16-30

ISBN

• 9781910350164
• 1910350168
• 9781910350232 (paperback)
• 1910350230 (paperback)
• 9781910350423 (boxed limited-edition hardback)
• 1910350427 (boxed limited-edition hardback)

OCLC

924034320

Author

Ai, Weiwei, artist.

Title

Ai Weiwei.

Publisher

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-229) and index.

Added Author

Marlow, Tim, 1963- interviewer.

Locke, Adrian, writer of supplementary textual content.

Tancock, John L., writer of added commentary.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 16-30