Image is Power: The Art of Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun / Huang Zhang & Pi Li (eds) (Hunan Fine Arts Publishing : Changsha : 2002)

Bibliographic Record

Access Point

B.CN.HXA.34.IIP

Title and Statement of Responsiblity

Image is Power = 圖像就是力量 : The Art of Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun / 王廣義、張曉剛和方力均的藝術 / Publication Director: Li Luming; Executive Editors: Huang Zhang, Pi Li; Editing Assistance: Zhu Xiagung, Liu Chunfeng, Zeng Zeng; Translators: Zheng Tao, Alice Ming Wai Jiu, Norman Ford; Duty Editors: Li Luming, Li Xiaoshan; Design: Ai An; Copy Editor: He Lili

Summarization of Content

Catalogue for the group show Image is Power held by the He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, in 2002, featuring the works of Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang, Fang Lijun.

The exhibition was the first large-scale retrospective the artists and  included most of the artists' important works. The purpose of the exhibition was to remove "various prejudices against Chinese contemporary art and further, to examine, with a historically probing eye, the creations of the artists and the time that stimulated their creation".  Includes interviews and essays critiquing Chinese contemporary art.

Publication/Production/Distribution Information

Changsha, China : Hunan Fine Arts Publishing , 2002

Identifier for Manifestation

ISBN 7-5356-1758-1

Extent

277 pages ; 105 paintings ; 24 photographs (27.9cm x 22.8cm x 1.9cm)

Content Form and Media Type

text , still image : unmediated

Location

esea contemporary Library Collection ➔ Research Lab ➔ Groups

Access and Use

Conditions on Access

This publication is available in the esea ResearchLab for non-commercial private research use.

Related Materials

The handout for the exhibition can be found in the Library collection.
    PB.CN.HXA.34.IIP : Image is Power: The Art of Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun, / Shenzhen : He Xiangning Art Museum : 2002

Related Information

People and Organisations

Wang, Guangyi, (b.1956), artist ; Zhang, Xiaogang, (b.1958), artist ; Fang, Lijiun, artist ; Hunan Fine Arts Publishing ; He Xiangning Art Museum, (1997-) ; Huang, Zhuan ; Pi Li ; Li, Xiaoshan ; Tasch, Stephanie ; Shu, Kewen ; Gao, Yue ; Merewether, Charles, curator ; Lu, Peng, (b.1956), curator, art critic ; Gao, Minglu ; Shimizu, Toshio ; Li Xianting, curator ; Solomon, Andrew ; Yi, Ying ; Chang, Tsong-zung, (b.1951), gallerist

Places

China ; Changsha

Keywords & Terms

exhibition catalogues ; text ; still images ; Chinese ; English ; Han (Simplified variant) ; Latin (script) ; polychrome ; Photographs ; Portraits ; unmediated ; books ; On site ; Silent ; Group shows ; He Xiangning Art Museum, (1997-) ; 2002 Exhibitions

Descriptive Note

Note

Formerly S2.003

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