Landscript
This is one of Xu Bing’s earlier landscript paintings and the forms of the characters are very clear, for example 木 tree and 石 stone. The fact that every part of the landscape is written with a character resembling its meaning represents a progression from the small sketches he drew in Helsinki (see LI2007.65-70), in which characters with only slight pictorial content function as labels rather than visual representations.
Details
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Title
Landscript
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Artist/maker
Xu Bing (born 1955) -
Associated place
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Date
2002 -
Material and technique
ink on Nepalese paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
50 x 173 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Michael Sullivan, 2013.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA2015.341
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