"Cai Guo-Qiang" accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work of Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The catalog presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artists creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: gunpowder 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 ...
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"Cai Guo-Qiang" accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work of Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The catalog presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artists creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: gunpowder 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 exhibition site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, the publication illuminates Cais significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. The fully illustrated catalog features essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon and Wang Hui, along with some sixty documented plate entries.
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Seller's Description:
Cai Guo-Qiang. Near fine. Dozens of illustrations, many in color. 315 pages, 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York: Guggenheim Museum, (2008). Internally fine, a near fine copy.
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Very Good. 10 x 11.5. Heavy edge wear, corners and ends of spline lightly rubbed, binding tight, pages unmarked, 315 pages, exhibit catalog from a retrospective of work by Cai Guo-Qiang with information on the artist, his work and career, color illustrations.
