Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective

Philippe Vergne

4.2/5 ( ratings)

This first monograph to look back over Huang Yong Ping's work to date finally brings the full range of his accomplishments to an international audience. As a contemporary artist in China working with diverse traditions and new and ancient media, Huang has built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to national identity to recent history. He was once one of the leading figures of the Xiamen Dada movement--a collective of artists working to create a new Chinese cultural identity by bridging trends in Western modernism with Chinese traditions of Zen and Taoism. He continues to confront established definitions of history and aesthetics with sculptures and installations that draw on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy, juxtaposing traditional objects, iconic images, and modern references. House of Oracles echoes that blend by binding photographs, essays, and striking sketchbook pages, which are presented with translations of the artist's calligraphy, in a matte soft cover with two facing spines--it opens with the plates on one side and the essays and artist writings on the other.

Language: English

Pages: 254

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Walker Art Center

Release: October 15, 2005

ISBN: 0935640827

ISBN 13: 9780935640823

House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective

Philippe Vergne

4.2/5 ( ratings)

This first monograph to look back over Huang Yong Ping's work to date finally brings the full range of his accomplishments to an international audience. As a contemporary artist in China working with diverse traditions and new and ancient media, Huang has built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to national identity to recent history. He was once one of the leading figures of the Xiamen Dada movement--a collective of artists working to create a new Chinese cultural identity by bridging trends in Western modernism with Chinese traditions of Zen and Taoism. He continues to confront established definitions of history and aesthetics with sculptures and installations that draw on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy, juxtaposing traditional objects, iconic images, and modern references. House of Oracles echoes that blend by binding photographs, essays, and striking sketchbook pages, which are presented with translations of the artist's calligraphy, in a matte soft cover with two facing spines--it opens with the plates on one side and the essays and artist writings on the other.

Language: English

Pages: 254

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Walker Art Center

Release: October 15, 2005

ISBN: 0935640827

ISBN 13: 9780935640823

More books from Philippe Vergne

Daniel Johnston

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasure

How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Mark Bradford: Merchant Posters

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Max Neuhaus

Doug Aitken: Electric Earth

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Gedi Sibony

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love

Jay Heikes

Selection: Art, Architecture and Design from the Collection of Ronnie Sassoon

Rate this book!

Write a review?