Research Catalog

Title

Other histories : Guan Wei's fable for a contemporary world : documentation of an exhibition / edited by Claire Roberts.

Author

Guan, Wei, 1957-

Publication

Sydney, NSW : Wild Peony Book Publishers ; Honolulu, Hawaii : distributed by University of Hawaii Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, Claire, 1959-
• Powerhouse Museum.

Description

165 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"Guan Wei is an artist of our times. He was born in Beijing, migrated to Australia, and now lives and works in Sydney and Beijing. Other Histories was a major installation by Guan at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, in 2006-2007. The exhibition, inspired by the voyages of Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He (1371-1432) and the artist's own journey of migration to Australia, combined large-scale mural paintings and museum objects, transforming the gallery into a floating poetic corridor in which history and memory, fact and fiction, are blurred." "This book documenting the exhibition includes a statement and working drawings by Guan and essays by curator Claire Roberts; Geremie R. Barme, a leading historian and Sinologist specializing in China's cultural and intellectual history; and award-winning novelist Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria."--Jacket

Alternative Title

• 另一种历史 : 关伟的一个现代寓言,从方案文件到展览实现
• Ling yi zhong li shi : Guan Wei de yi ge xian dai yu yan, cong fang an wen jian dao zhan lan shi xian
• Ling yi zhong li shi : Guan Wei de yi ge xian dai yu yan : cong fang an wen jian dao zhan lan shi xian

Subject

Guan, Wei, 1957- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "published ... in association with Powerhouse Museum with the support of The Australian National University, Song Ya Feng Culture & Art Center Beijing, Beijing Artron Colour Printong Co Ltd."
• "... published ... following the exhibition 'Other histories: Guan Wei's fable for a contemporary world', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 11 October 2006-22 April 2007..."--T.p. verso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-155).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'Other histories' : origins and creative lessons / Guan Wei -- Preparatory drawings / Guan Wei -- The artists / Jean-François Lanzarone -- Guan Wei : artist as storyteller / Claire Roberts -- Exhibition views / Jean-François Lanzarone and Marinco Kojdanovski -- Travels in Guan Wei's curiosity cabinet / Geremie R. Barmé -- The swift might speak of its flight, if stories are no longer there ... / Alexis Wright.

ISBN

• 1876957115
• 9781876957117

OCLC

227984687

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library