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Ai Weiwei : bare life

Title
Ai Weiwei : bare life / edited by Sabine Eckmann ; with contributions by Sabine Eckmann, Kristina Kleutghen, Carol Yinghua Lu, Susanne Lüdemann, Molly Moog, Eric L. Santner, and Ai Weiwei.
Author
Ai, Weiwei
Publication
  • St. Louis, Missouri : Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, [2019]
  • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Eckmann, Sabine (Sabine M.)
  • Kleutghen, Kristina, 1981-
  • Lu, Carol Yinghua
  • Lüdemann, Susanne, 1960-
  • Moog, Molly
  • Santner, Eric L., 1955-
  • Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, host institution.
Description
209 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 x 24 cm
Summary
"Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cultural traditions, are deeply engaged with the history of art, drawing particularly on conceptualism and minimalism. Informed by the readymade--central to the work of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol--his work questions the status of the work of art itself, blurring the lines between art and non-art, invention and appropriation, structure and openness, even fiction and fact. From the start of his multifaceted career in the late 1970s, Ai has envisioned artistic practice as a deeply human, moral, and political endeavor. This volume--a hybrid between a scholarly study and an exhibition catalog--presents the artist's work in dialogue with theoretical texts by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt alongside interpretive essays that illuminate the artist's work on human rights, his engagement with historical Chinese artifacts, and his critical consideration of the effects of globalization. The book includes a new essay on human rights by Ai Weiwei and an interview in which he discusses his artwork and activism. It also features installation photographs of the corresponding exhibition. By exploring Ai Weiwei's artistic practice in dialogue with philosophies, theories, and concepts that connect human life and political power, this publication offers new insights into one of the most important artists working today."--Publisher's description.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 28, 2019, to January 5, 2020. The exhibition was curated by Sabine Eckmann in collaboration with Ai Weiwei."--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Interview in English and Chinese.
Contents
Foreword / Carmon Colangelo -- Acknowlegements / Sabine Eckmann -- Introduction / Sabine Eckmann -- On human rights / Ai Weiwei -- On becoming visible / Sabine Eckmann -- From sacred life to the life of glory : the vital sphere in Giorgio Agamben / Eric L. Santner -- Bare life -- Total involvement / Carol Yinghua Lu -- Rejointing past and present : classical Chinese woodworking and Ai Weiwei's furniture-sculpture / Kristina Kleutghen -- Diving for pearls : dealing with the past after departure from tradition / Susanne Lüdemann -- Rupture -- Interview with Ai Weiwei / Sabine Eckmann -- Artworks in the exhibition / Molly Moog.
Call Number
JQF 20-226
ISBN
  • 0936316462
  • 9780936316468
OCLC
1090154227
Author
Ai, Weiwei, artist, author, interviewee.
Title
Ai Weiwei : bare life / edited by Sabine Eckmann ; with contributions by Sabine Eckmann, Kristina Kleutghen, Carol Yinghua Lu, Susanne Lüdemann, Molly Moog, Eric L. Santner, and Ai Weiwei.
Publisher
St. Louis, Missouri : Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, [2019]
Distributor
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Interview in English and Chinese.
Added Author
Eckmann, Sabine (Sabine M.), editor, author, interviewer.
Kleutghen, Kristina, 1981- author.
Lu, Carol Yinghua, author.
Lüdemann, Susanne, 1960- author.
Moog, Molly, author.
Santner, Eric L., 1955- author.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 20-226
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