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The calligrapher and book artist Xu Bing has been called the most innovative Chinese artist of our time. As a citizen of both China and the United States and the first Asian-American artist to win the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius award," Xu Bing has fascinated and challenged audiences around the world with his imaginative textual art. From his 4,000 unreadable Chinese-looking characters, which unite Asian and Western audiences alike in an egalitarianism of induced illiteracy, to his invention of a "square words" language that makes "Chinese" readable by anyone at all, Xu Bing's…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2006Princeton University Press · 104 pages · 9780691125329
- Other · English · 2005P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Univ., in association with P · 104 pages · 9780691125688
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)Words in artCriticism and interpretationHistoryCongressesChina, history, 20th century