| Yan Pei-Ming: Un Enterrement À Shanghai Contributor(s): Pei-Ming, Yan, Des Cars, Laurence (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 3775746854 ISBN-13: 9783775746854 Publisher: Hatje Cantz OUR PRICE: $76.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | Asian - Chinese - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
| Physical Information: 2.2" H x 9.8" W x 12.7" (8.30 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An unprecedented artist's book whose pages can be assembled into one monumental painting: Yan Pei-Ming's homage to Courbet The first place that the 21-year-old Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960) visited on a 1980 trip to France was Ornans, the birthplace of the French realist Gustave Courbet. Thirty-nine years later, Pei-Ming takes the 200th anniversary of the birth of his hero as an opportunity to demonstrate his immense admiration for Courbet and his masterpiece, Burial in Ornans. Yan Pei-Ming transforms and translates this scene into a contemporary Burial in Shanghai, the city where he grew up, and where his mother is buried. This unique artist's book represents this undertaking in 290 divisible fragments. Pei-Ming intends that one can disassemble the book, assemble its fragments and form the painting in its original size, which is more than 20 feet wide and 10 feet high. |