9780939117758: Collected Letters: An Installation by Liu Jianhua
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0939117754 ISBN 13: 9780939117758
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016

Synopsis

As a 50th anniversary gift to the museum, the Society for Asian Art has commissioned a major work by Liu Jianhua, one of China's best-known contemporary installation artists. The work comprises approximately 2,500 pieces of white porcelain formed into letters of the English alphabet and components of Chinese characters, suspended from the ceiling of the second-floor loggia. The artist provides only the building blocks of words, leaving it to viewers to create meaning. The artwork's location is especially apropos: the space offers an opportunity for dialogue with the original engraved literary quotations on the loggia's walls, dating to the building's previous incarnation as San Francisco's Main Library.

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About the Author

The Asian Art MuseumA-Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture."

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Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0939117754
ISBN 13 
9780939117758
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
80