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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript

(from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013)

Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Detail of Family Plots, by Xu Bing, Beijing, 1988 (Museum no. LI2007.61)
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Exhibition of French 19th Century Rural Landscape Paintings

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  • Description

    In March 1978 the National Gallery of China, now called the National Art Museum of China, held an exhibition of French 19th-century rural landscape paintings. The exhibition was organised by the French Ministry of Culture and included works by Millet, Courbet, Corot, Pissarro, and others. Xu Bing was then a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, very close to the National Gallery, and the exhibition made a deep impression on him. The rural landscapes and farm scenes depicted were reminiscent of his recent experience between 1974 and 1977 as an urban youth sent to the countryside for re-education. The style of the paintings was also familiar. Art instruction in China at that time followed a Soviet model, which was itself based on French Realism.

    This catalogue is one of three publications related to the exhibition. It comprises a foreword by the head of the French Foreign Ministry; a preface by the head of the Parisian Municipal Board of Culture and president of the exhibition committee; an essay by an official from the French Réunion des musées nationaux; and a listing of 88 paintings.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaHebei province Beijing (place of publication)
    Date
    1978
    Associated people
    National Art Museum of China (established 1963) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    print
    Dimensions
    18.7 x 26.5 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
    Accession no.
    LI2008.1.a
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no.16a on p.49, pp. 48, illus. pp. 49-50 fig. 16a

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