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Ai Weiwei : making sense

Title
Ai Weiwei : making sense / edited by Justin McGuirk.
Publication
  • London, United Kingdom : Design Museum Publishing, 2023.
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Ai, Weiwei
  • McGuirk, Justin
  • Design Museum (London, England), host institution. https://isni.org/isni/0000000404238577
Description
224 pages : illustrations (some colour); 27 cm
Summary
The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei's approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects. Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector - whatever mode Ai Weiwei is in, he is trying to tell us something about the state of the world. This book presents Ai's work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Confronted by the rapid pace of change in his country, Ai became fascinated by Chinese antiquities. His vast collections of historical artefacts, from Stone Age tools to broken teapot spouts, attest to the way the language of objects speaks across the ages. Is this a classic tale of technical progress, or have we lost crucial qualities with the march of time? Ai invites us to make sense of these objects as he explores the tensions between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction. Exhibition: Design Museum, London, UK (07.04. - 30.07.2023).
Alternative Title
Making sense
Subject
  • Ai, Weiwei > Exhibitions
  • Ai, Weiwei
  • Installations (Art)
  • Found objects (Art)
  • Mixed media (Art)
  • Mass media and art
  • Outdoor art
  • Political art
  • Public art
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Design Museum, 2023.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Tim Marlow -- Introduction / Justin McGuirk -- WORKS -- Evidence -- Construction/Destruction -- Ordinary things -- TEXTS -- Beijing photographs / Rachel Hajek -- Collecting China / Julia Lovell -- To meet by chance / Wang Shu -- I felt the wind, the air... / Brian Dillon -- One hundred thousand things / Justin McGuirk -- In conversation / Eyal Weizman and Ai Weiwei
Call Number
JQF 23-1372
ISBN
  • 9781872005638
  • 1872005632
OCLC
1370614629
Title
Ai Weiwei : making sense / edited by Justin McGuirk.
Publisher
London, United Kingdom : Design Museum Publishing, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Ai, Weiwei. Works. Selections.
McGuirk, Justin, editor.
Design Museum (London, England), host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 23-1372
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