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Ink paintings by Gao Xingjian : Nobel prize winner / Gao Xingjian.
- Title
- Ink paintings by Gao Xingjian : Nobel prize winner / Gao Xingjian.
- Author
- Gao, Xingjian.
- Publication
- Dumont, N.J. : Homa & Sekey Books, c2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | ND1049.G36 I54 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 90 p. : chiefly ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- This book brings together over sixty ink paintings by Gao Xingjian that are representative of his philosophy and painting style. Gao believes that the world cannot be explained, and that artistic creation offers the only way to escape from the madding crowd. The images in his paintings show exactly those aspects of the world that he believes to be inexplicable -- the black-and-white inner world that underlies the complexity of human existence. All his paintings are drawn in the traditional Chinese black ink on rice paper because he feels that "the brushing and spread of the ink on rice paper holds a definite kind of enjoyment" for him. Gao's painting is characterized by the spontaneous overflow of the ink and his seemingly abstract images which are nonetheless figurative or metaphorical. People admire his meditative images and evocative atmosphere by which Gao intends his viewers to visualize the human conditions in extremity.--From publisher description.
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- Note
- Includes essay by the artist.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 193190703X
- 9781931907033
- LCCN
- ^^2002101974
- OCLC
- 51027747
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library