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Ai Weiwei : Circle of animals
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- Creator
- edited and with an introduction by Susan Delson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 219 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783791346366, 3791346369
- OCLC
- ocn742507054
- "Published in association with AW Asia, New York, on the occasion of the traveling installation Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-214) and index.
- Headlong into history / Susan Delson -- Circle of animals/zodiac heads : bronze / texts by Paola Dematte -- "My work is always a readymade" / interview with Ai Weiwei -- Monkey king makes havoc : Ai Weiwei conducts a carnival of the animals / Karen Smith -- The original and the copy : Ai Weiwei and the fate of the zodiac heads / Charles Merewether -- Circle of animals/zodiac heads : gold -- Circle of animals/zodiac heads and the twelve-animal cycle in China / Paola Dematte -- Mid-Qing arts and Jesuit visions : visual encounters and exchanges in 18th-century Beijing / Marco Musillo -- Heads of state : looting, nationalism, and repatriation of the Zodiac bronzes / Kristina Kleutghen -- The heads at auction : two experts weigh in / Lark E. Mason & Joe-Hynn Yang -- The zodiac heads and the auction block / Colin Jones
Subjects
- Ai, Weiwei. Circle of animals/Zodiac heads (Bronze) -- Exhibitions.
- Ai, Weiwei. Circle of animals/Zodiac heads (Gold) -- Exhibitions.
- Ai, Weiwei -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Ai, Weiwei -- Interviews.
- Animal sculpture -- China -- Exhibitions.
- Zodiac in art -- Exhibitions.
- Art thefts -- China -- History -- 19th century.
- Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing, China) -- History.