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Ai Weiwei : good fences make good neighbors
- Title
- Ai Weiwei : good fences make good neighbors / Nicholas Baume ; foreword by Susan K. Freedman ; with texts by Daniel S. Palmer and Katerina Stathopoulou ; commentaries by Richard Armstrong [and 32 others].
- Publication
- New York, NY : Public Art Fund, [2019]
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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- Description
- 303 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), color maps; 32 cm
- Summary
- "A comprehensive presentation of Ai Weiwei's recent public art exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, a powerful reflection on the global refugee crisis. Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (on view from October 2017 to February 2018) consisted of immersive large-scale sculptures for city monuments, fences on building facades and bus stops, and portraits of refugees and immigrants displayed on outdoor banners. This publication documents the extraordinary project from conception to final installation, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the research, preparatory drawings, planning, and fabrication that brought it to life. The book includes an in-depth interview with Ai Weiwei about the project's personal significance, an essay by curator Nicholas Baume, and statements from a wide variety of individuals--including Olafur Eliasson, David Miliband, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Jorge Ramos, among many others--about their interactions with the artworks. As Baume asserts, "Ai Weiwei created a remarkable model for what great public art strives to be--emotionally engaging and politically resonant, conceptually and formally inventive yet broadly accessible.""--
- "Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (on view from October 2017 to February 2018) consisted of immersive large-scale sculptures for city monuments, fences on building facades and bus stops, and portraits of refugees and immigrants displayed on outdoor banners. This publication documents the extraordinary project from conception to final installation, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the research, preparatory drawings, planning, and fabrication that brought it to life"--
- Alternative Title
- Good fences make good neighbors
- Subjects
- Public art
- Installations (Art)
- Conceptual art
- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
- Public art > New York (State) > New York
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Installations (Art) > New York (State) > New York
- ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
- ART / Asian
- ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
- Ai, Weiwei > Criticism and interpretation
- New York (State) > New York
- Conceptual art > New York (State) > New York
- Exhibition catalogs
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ai Weiwei: good fences make good neighbors", held at the Public Art Fund, from October 12, 2017 to February 11, 2018.
- Contents
- The art of political landscaping / Nicholas Baume -- Ai Weiwei in conversation with Nicholas Baume -- Midtown Manhattan -- Gilded cage -- Banners -- Uptown Manhattan -- Bronx & Queens -- Bus shelters -- Circle fence -- Brooklyn & Staten Island -- Good neighbors -- Downtown Manhattan -- Exodus -- Odyssey -- Chrystie street fence -- Bowery fence -- 7th street fence -- Five fences -- Arch -- Mending wall / Robert Frost.
- Call Number
- JQG 19-983
- ISBN
- 9780300243796
- 0300243790
- LCCN
- 2018060670
- OCLC
- 1080554375
- Title
- Ai Weiwei : good fences make good neighbors / Nicholas Baume ; foreword by Susan K. Freedman ; with texts by Daniel S. Palmer and Katerina Stathopoulou ; commentaries by Richard Armstrong [and 32 others].
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Public Art Fund, [2019]
- Distributor
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
- Type of Content
- still imagetext
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Baume, Nicholas, author, interviewer, curator.Palmer, Daniel S., author.Stathopoulou, Kateriana, author.Ai, Weiwei. Works. Selections.Public Art Fund (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 19-983