Conversations / / Ai Weiwei.
Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career.These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the mean...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 29 b&w figures |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Conversation with Andrew Solomon -- 2 Conversation with Evan Osnos -- 3 Conversation with Tim Marlow -- 4 Conversation with Amale Andraos and Carol Becker -- 5 Conversation with Vivian Yee -- 6 Conversation with Nicholas Baume -- Contributor Biographies |
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Summary: | Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career.These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the meaning of citizenship, moving his studio to Lesbos to be on the front lines of the migrant crisis, how to make art, and technology as a tool for freedom or oppression. Ai opens up about his relationship to his father as a poet and as a dissident forced into hard labor in a small village after the Cultural Revolution. He conjures up scenes from his long relationship with New York: dropping out of Parsons because he couldn’t afford tuition, making portraits in Washington Square Park as an undocumented immigrant in the 1980s, taking photos for the New York Times at demonstrations in Tompkins Square Park, and returning to set up the Good Fences Make Good Neighbors project across the city.These candid, spontaneous conversations reveal why Ai Weiwei has become such a major force in contemporary art and political life. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231552141 9783110739077 9783110753790 9783110754032 9783110754001 9783110753776 |
DOI: | 10.7312/ai--19738 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ai Weiwei. |