Published in conjunction with Liu Xiaodong's solo exhibition at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, China, entitled 'Painting from Life', this monograph focuses on the artist's recent large-scale painting projects. He employed ordinary people such as construction workers, soldiers and prostitutes as models, and executed the works on location in China, Taiwan and Thailand. Featured works include Three Gorges: Displaced Population, Three Gorges: Newly Displaced Population, Eighteen Soldiers between Mainland and Taiwan, and Hotbed. This volume also includes an extensive collection of sketches, notes, photographs, news articles and other documentation. With tipped in colour plates. Artist biography provided.

Alternative title

Liu xiaodong: xiesheng

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 嶺南美術出版社 (Guangzhou, China)

editor

WANG Huangsheng, 王璜生

Location code

MONL.LXD

Language

Chinese - Simplified,

English

Keywords

oil painting, figure, portraiture, solo exhibition

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

701

ISBN / ISSN

7536233000

No of copies

Content type

artist monograph,

catalogue

Chapter headings

Painting from Life: The Double Connection between Writing and Visuality (Preface) - WANG Huangsheng, 王璜生

Unexceptionalism, Anonymity and Folds - WANG Minan, 汪民安

A Standpoint Without Position - AI Weiwei, 艾未未

Reality Happens All the Time (or The Space of Interruption) - Beatrice LEANZA

The flow of life amid a dam's rise - Suzanne MUCHNIC

New shows at the Asian trace paths through history, from 1st European contact to Three Gorges ruin - Kenneth BAKER

Art as Complaint - Jeff KELLEY

Alien Battlefield — 'Heart' World of Liu Xiaodong - NAN Fangshuo, 方朔南

Golden Lion Award Caused by a Painting

A Q&A with Liu Xiaodong

A Few Key Words Regarding 'Hotbed' - PI Li, 皮力

Liu Xiaodong Painting in Three Gorges - WU Penghui, 兀鵬輝

Liu Xiaodong Painting in Bangkok - WU Penghui, 兀鵬輝

Reality, on the contrary, is not everything - Acheng, 阿城

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