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  • Xu Bing's Version of Zhai Dakun's 'Admiring the Spring From a Thatched Cottage' (group of four prints)
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Xu Bing's Version of Zhai Dakun's 'Admiring the Spring From a Thatched Cottage'

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  • Description

    The image incorporates the Chinese characters 山 ‘mountain’, 门 ‘door’, and 竹‘bamboo’. The title is inscribed on this work using ‘square word calligraphy’.

  • Details

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    Series
    The Suzhou Landscript
    Associated place
    New York (place of creation)
    Date
    designed March 2008 - printed 2012
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (designer)
    copyist of Zhai Dakun (1730 - 1804) (artist)
    Jill Czarnowski (active c. 2012) (printer)
    Jason Miller (active c. 2012) (printer)
    Universarl Limited Art Editions (established 1955) (printmaker)
    Associated people
    Deuce II Editions (active c. 2012) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    lithograph
    Dimensions
    frame 231.1 x 96.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    lithograph
    Object type index
    calligraphy,
    print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Judith Goldman.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.75

  • 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. 77c on pp. 140-145, pp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 77, 117, 110, 119, 129, 136, 137, 149, 158, 171, illus. p. 4 fig. 1, p. 9 fig. 4, p. 127 fig. 5 & pp. 141 & 143-145 fig. 77c

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