Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming - Cai Guo-qiang

Descriere Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming - Cai Guo-qiang

\n \nAn epic exploration of the artist internationally renowned for his unique gunpowder art\n \nThis is the first publication to synthesize the fundamental concepts and methodological pursuits behind the art of Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957), since his 2008 Guggenheim retrospective exhibition catalog I Want to Believe. Introduced through a comprehensive map and chronology and encompassing the visual and textual records from over three decades of Cai Guo-Qiang's career, this book showcases the work of an artist renowned for his unique gunpowder art through his Individual's Journey Through Western Art History. In a series of exhibitions at major museums and cultural sites around the world, including the Prado Museum, Uffizi Galleries, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Pompeii Archaeological Park, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cai has engaged in dialogues with periods of Western art history as presented by the institutions. The series also retraces Cai's expansive journey of homecoming through dialogues with his original passion for painting, the spirit of Chinese culture and his eternal home in the Cosmos. \nThis publication presents the culmination of Cai's Journey with the exhibition Odyssey and Homecoming at the Palace Museum, the first ever by a contemporary artist, coinciding with the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City.\n

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Delmonico Books

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ENSTK

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9781636810072

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1

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