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Asian Art
Extreme Behavior
New Directions from China
hAYwArd PubLIshInG
Text by stephanie rosenthal, Gao
shiming, Pauline Yao, Colin Chinnery,
Carol Lu, karen smith, katie hill, Phil
Tinari, zhu zhu.
Extreme Behavior is the first catalogue
to trace out a very particular seam of
performative Chinese art from the late
1980s to the present, as manifested in
the work of eight artists: Liang Shaoji,
Wang Jianwei, xu Zhen/madeInCompany,
gu Dexin, Sun Yuan and peng
Yu, Chen Zhen and Yingmei Duan.
often working on a grand scale, they
invite the audience to engage with
overwhelming, theatrical, yet
ephemeral experiences—works which
transform over time, like xu Zhen’s
actions of Consciousness, in which
concealed assistants make colorful
sculptures, and toss them into the
air from inside a sealed white cube.
published to coincide with a major
exhibition at London’s Hayward
gallery, this book explores the
political, social and cultural
conditions shaping contemporary
Chinese sculpture.
978-1-85332-303-4
pbk, 7 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
U.S. $35.00 CDn $35.00
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A Pocket history of 20th-Century Chinese Art
9788881587964
Pbk, u.s. $59.95 Cdn $59.95
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Previously Announced.
Lee Ufan: Marking
Infinity
GuGGenheIM MuseuM PubLICATIons
Text by Alexandra Munroe, Tatehata
Akira, Mika Yoshitake, nancy Lim,
reiko Tomii.
published for the guggenheim’s 2011
retrospective on Lee Ufan (born 1936),
Marking Infinity charts the Korean
artist and theorist’s creation of a visual
and conceptual language that has
greatly expanded the possibilities of
painting and sculpture in the postwar
era. Whether placing brush marks on
canvas or combining discrepant textures
of steel and stone, Lee has consistently
elicited the subtlest and most
spacious effects from the particular
qualities of his materials. Lee is also a
key theorist of mono-ha, a movement
that developed in tokyo in the late
1960s, and this hardcover volume includes
a selection of his influential
writings on aesthetics and philosophy,
published in english for the first time—
alongside a wealth of full-color reproductions
of Lee’s iconic paintings,
sculptures and works on paper from
the past 40 years.
978-0-89207-418-1
Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 200 pgs /
illustrated throughout.
U.S. $65.00 CDn $65.00
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Fang Lijun:
The Precipice
Over the Clouds
ChArTA/PIn GALLerY
Text by danilo eccher, fan di’an,
Arianna bona, fang Lijun, he Juxing,
Guo xiaoyan.
Fang Lijun (born 1963) is the artist
most closely associated with the painting
movement dubbed “Cynical realism,”
that emerged in China in the
1990s. Cynical realist painters reacted
to the recent history and political present
of their country—from the 1911 revolution
to the maoist revolution to the
recent capitalist boom—with a barely
suppressed irony and often brutal
humor, depicting the country in a state
of moral bankruptcy and spiritual atrophy.
In the case of Fang Lijun, this
stance produced wildly colorful canvases
populated with demented faces
grinning to oppressive excess against
cheerful blue skies. Lijun’s work has
met with great acclaim outside of
China, having been exhibited at the
museum of modern art in new York
and the pompidou in paris. With more
than 200 color reproductions, this volume
offers the most substantial
overview of his paintings to date.
978-88-8158-847-3
Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 352 pgs / 210 color /
150 b&w.
U.S. $75.00 CDn $75.00
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Victoria Lu:
Viki Lu Meets
the Future
A Memoir and Manifesto
ChArTA
Text by nate Lord, Phillip bloom,
ritz wu.
victoria Lu (born 1951) was China’s
first female curator and contemporary
art critic. this autobiography, an account
of her 30-plus years in the asian
art world, recounts her early days in
late–1970s Los angeles, her years in
taiwan in the early 1990s when the art
scene there was just beginning to
bloom, and her subsequent work animating
China’s art culture with her relentless
energy. (She writes: “If I could
use one sentence to describe the last
six decades of my life it would be: ‘I
work very hard every day from morning
till night.’”) the book is divided
into two sections: the first contains
Lu’s autobiographical account, and the
second presents her more speculative
ideas about the present and future of
asian art, and Lu’s own vision as a curator.
978-88-8158-839-8
pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 150 color.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
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nonfiction & Criticism
Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Future Will Be . . .
The China Edition
Thoughts on What’s to Come
PInACoTeCA AGneLLI/uCCA
edited by karen Marta, Philip Tinari. Text by Ginevra elkann, hans ulrich obrist, Philip Tinari.
Internationally celebrated Swiss curator and cultural mastermind Hans Ulrich obrist never looks
back. Since 2005, he has asked artists, architects, scientists, actors and philosophers the world over to
fill in the blank for what’s to come. now, he turns to China to further his ongoing speculative narrative.
In this elfin-size, bilingual (english/Chinese) volume, people active in Chinese culture tell
obrist what they think the future will be. Co-published with the Ullens Center for Contemporary art,
this is the first installment of a new series published by pinacoteca giovanni and marella agnelli.
participants include a Yi, nadim abbas, ai Weiwei, Daniel a. Bell, Cao Fei, Yung Ho Chang, Chen
Jiaying, Chen xiaoyun, Chen man, Chen Wei, Cheng ran, Cheng Wenhao, Chi Huisheng, Heman
Chong, Chu Yun, Ding Yi, Duan Jianyu, Fang Lu, gao Lei, gao Weigang, ge Lei, Frank gehry, gu
Dexin and many others.
978-988-16223-2-7
pbk, 6.5 x 5 in. / 250 pgs.
U.S. $15.00 CDn $15.00
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“Compiling thoughts about the future is
to take a snapshot of the contemporary
moment.” —Hans Ulrich Obrist
Xu Bing: Tianshu
Passages in the Making of a Book
bernArd quArITCh LTd.
ArT hIGhLIGhTs
edited by katherine spears. Text by John Cayley, xu bing, Lydia h. Liu, huan saussy, wu hung. Preface by John koh.
Chinese-born, U.S.–based artist xu Bing (born 1955) makes epic, language-based sculptures, books and installations that
are frequently inspired by China’s rich heritage of print culture and bookmaking. this beautifully designed volume
records his acclaimed work “tianshu” (or “Book from the Sky”). “tianshu” consists of four volumes of unreadable “Chinese”
characters printed in a traditional Chinese style from 4,000 hand-carved pieces of wood type. (the number of invented
characters was based on the actual number of characters in common usage in China.) It took xu Bing four years to
carve the type and create the characters for this extraordinary work, which he first conceived in 1986 as “a book that no
one would ever be able to read.” the volume includes xu Bing’s own account of the work’s genesis, as well as extended
commentary by a range of scholars.
978-0-9550852-9-1
pbk, 6.75 x 10.75 in. / 177 pgs / 40 color / 26 b&w.
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00
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“Once in 1986, while thinking of something else, it occurred to me
to make a book that no one would ever be able to read. . . .” —Xu Bing
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