Cai Guo-Qiang : I want to believe / Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe.
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TextPublication details: New York : Guggenheim Museum ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2008.Description: 315 p. : ill., some col. ; 29 cmISBN: - 9780892073719 (hbk.)
- I want to believe
- Cai Guoqiang
- 709.2 GUO
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 709.2 GUO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100378851 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
I Want to Believe accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang--best known for his spectacular artworks using gunpowder and fireworks. It presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist's creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: 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, this volume illuminates Cai's significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. Generously illustrated more than 368 pages, this volume includes essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon and Wang Hui--along with some 60 documented plate entries. It is the defining scholarly publication on the artist thus far.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: I want to believe . . . [held at] Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 22 - May 28, 2008; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, August 18 - September 20, 2008; Guggenheim Museum Biubao, March - September, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-308).
Cai Guo-Qiang : I want to believe / Alexandra Munroe -- The dialectics of art and the event / Wang Hui -- Image explosiuon : global readymades / David Joselit -- The art of expenditure / Miwon Kwon.