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April 2011
7x9, 320 pp., 58 illus.
$24.95/￡18.95 (PAPER)
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0-262-01521-8
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978-0-262-01521-9
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Writing Art
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Ai Weiwei's Blog
Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
Ai Weiwei
Translated by Lee Ambrozy
In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist
started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady
stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy,
thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote
about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who
died because of the government’s "tofu-dregs engineering"), reminisced
about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of
being investigated for "fraud" by the Ministry of Public Security, made a
modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese
authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's online
writings translated into English--the most complete, public documentation
of the original Chinese blog available in any language.
The New York Times has called Ai "a figure of Warholian celebrity." He is a
leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and
biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist,
architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on
the design of the famous "Bird’s Nest" stadium but called for an Olympic
boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art "lifetime achievement award"
in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his "citizen
investigation" of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents
Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision
for China.
About the Author
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957), artist, architect, activist, and outspoken social
critic, is one of the most famous and controversial figures in China today.
His work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United
States, in venues ranging from the Venice Biennale to the Guangzhou
Triennial.
Endorsements
“Blogging produces reality rather than simply representing it. Ai Weiwei is
among our very best guides to this new terrain: one of the greatest living
international artists and a fighter for more freedom. Ai Weiwei’s daily
blog entries, gathered here, will make the reader see the world in a
different and startlingly original light.”
—Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director
of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London
“Ai Weiwei is a widely acclaimed artist, an innovative designer, an
influential architect, a visionary urbanist, a competitive cook, and even a
great hairdresser. He is also a compelling and disputatious writer who knows
how to address and to rally a wide audience, voicing his own
dissatisfaction, and that of his fellow countrymen, at being confronted on a
daily basis with the alarming glibness of a rampant Chinese society and its
disquieting political representation.”
—Chris Dercon, Director, Tate Modern
“The works and words of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who lived in New York
during formative years of his artistic development, seem to arise not only
from the venerable cultural traditions of his homeland but also from those
commenced in colonial America with the ‘Common Sense’ political activism
of Thomas Paine, further fused with the trickster antics of the Native
American Coyote character and the lingering specter of Andy Warhol’s media
savvy. It remains to be seen what will become of this broadly transnational
artist amidst the turbulent global culture of our time, but he is not easily
ignored.”
—Jock Reynolds, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery |
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