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Cai Guo-Qiang, I want to believe / Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe.

Title
Cai Guo-Qiang, I want to believe / Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe.
Author
Cai, Guoqiang, 1957-
Publication
New York : Guggenheim Museum ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Munroe, Alexandra.
  • Krens, Thomas
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Zhongguo mei shu guan.
  • Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Description
315 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang - best known for his spectacular artworks using gunpowder. It presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist's creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: drawings made from gunpowder fuses and explosive powders laid on paper and ignited; explosion events, documented by videos, photographs, and preparatory drawings; large-scale installations; and social projects, wherein the artist works with local communities to create an art event or exhibitions site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, this volume illuminates Cai's significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. Generously illustrated with more than 230 images, this volume includes essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon, and Wang Hui - along with 54 documented plate entries. It is the defining scholarly publication of the artist thus far."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
I want to believe
Subject
Cai, Guoqiang, 1957- > Exhibitions
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition organized by Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe and held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Feb. 22-May 28, 2008; the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Aug. 18-Sept. 20, 2008; and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Mar.-Sept. 2009.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-314).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Cai Guo-Qiang : I want to believe / Alexandra Munroe -- The dialectics of art and the event / Wang Hui -- Image explosiuon : global readymades / David Joselit -- The art of expenditure / Miwon Kwon.
ISBN
  • 9780892073719 (hbk.)
  • 0892073713 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 180473716
  • SCSB-10092378
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library