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*NEW*: 2025 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2024.1.1-2024.12.31
2025 Gudong Paimai Nianjian 2025 古董拍賣年鑑.

Abe, Stanley:
- ORDINARY IMAGES

AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER

Acharya, Sanjay:
- BHUTAN

Adams, Edward B:
- ART TREASURES OF SEOUL

Alexander, William & Mason, George:
- VIEWS OF 18TH CENTURY CHINA: COSTUMES, HISTORY, CUSTOMS

Allen, H. M. ed:
- LETTERS OF P. S. ALLEN

Andrews, F. H:
- WALL PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT SHRINES IN CENTRAL ASIA

ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU
(Remains of Large Stone Tombs Found on the Anning River) 安寧河流域大石窟.

Yuhas, Louise ed:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 25

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 33

Asahi Shimbun ed:
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER SIX
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER NINE
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER TEN - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE
- THIS IS JAPAN 1965 - NUMBER 12
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 13
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 16

Asian Art Museum:
- 5,000 YEARS OF KOREAN ART

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES

CAYTP2
Cayley, John, Xu Bing, and others; Katherine Spears ed: TIANSHU: PASSAGES IN THE MAKING OF A BOOK. 天書的過程. London, 2009. 188 pp. Numerous b/w figures and 39 colour plates. Appendixes, notes, bibliography. 30x21 cm. Distinctive clear flexible plastic cover elegantly exposing the binding.
GBP 300.00
Published to accompany an exhibition at Bernard Quaritch, London, this is the most detailed and comprehensive critical and descriptive exposition of Xu Bing's famous artwork - with many comments on his other works - published to date. Includes fine colour plates of sample pages from 'Book from the Sky.' John Cayley's long essay on reading the unreadable book is accompanied by Xu Bing's own account of the making of his book (in both Chinese and English translation), and essays by Lydia Liu, Haun Saussy and Wu Hung. Cayley also provides a much extended bibliographic description of the 'Tianshu' and Xu Bing's studio supplies an exhaustive exhibition history. There is also a dialogue on Xu Bing between Cayley and the poet Yang Lian and a general bibliography. Recommended.
  Between 1987 and 1991, the Chinese graphic and fine artist, Xu Bing (born, Chongqing, 1955, and a 1999 MacArthur Fellow), designed a 'vocabulary' of four thousand characters which appear, in terms of their graphic form and structure, to be Chinese, but which are entirely unreadable in terms of natural linguistic signification. None of them appear in Chinese dictionaries, and they do not relate to any other language on earth. During the same period, Xu personally carved (in reverse) the pear-wood type from which he eventually had his 'Tianshu' or 'Book from the Sky' set and hand-printed in a small bookmaking factory in China. As a conceptual art work and printmaking tour de force, Xu Bing's 'Tianshu' has been seen by some critics and scholars as one of the most important works of late 20th-century Chinese art. This copy is distinguished by two small seals in Square Word reading - Xu and Bing - on the title page. Impressed by Xu Bing so, in effect, a 'signed' copy.
Subjects: Rare Books Contemporary Art
Item 206 in List 214.
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