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 : Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
EAN: 9780892073719
ISBN: 0892073713
Label: Guggenheim Museum
Manufacturer: Guggenheim Museum
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 316
Publication Date: March 01, 2008
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Release Date: March 01, 2008
Studio: Guggenheim Museum




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I Want To Believe accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang--best known for his spectacular artworks using gunpowder and fireworks. It presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist's creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: drawings made from gunpowder fuses and explosive powders laid on paper and ignited; explosion events, documented by videos, photographs and preparatory drawings; large-scale installations; and social projects, wherein the artist works with local communities to create an art event or exhibition site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, this volume illuminates Cai's significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. Generously illustrated over 368 pages, this volume includes essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon and Wang Hui--along with some 60 documented plate entries. It is the defining scholarly publication on the artist thus far.



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Still shots of Video Art
The book doesn't do the exhibit justice but the still shots of the video art are worth owning the book as the videos aren't available online.







 






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