Huang Yong Ping

The catalogue of Huang Yong Ping's retrospective was published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Walker Art Center (2005), MASS MoCA (2006), Vancouver Art Gallery (2007) and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (2008).

 

This first monograph to look back over Huang Yong Ping's work to date finally brings the full range of his accomplishments to an international audience. Huang built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to national identity to recent history. He was once one of the leading figures of the Xiamen Dada movement--a collective of artists working to create a new Chinese cultural identity by bridging trends in Western modernism with Chinese traditions of Zen and Taoism. He confronted established definitions of history and aesthetics with sculptures and installations that draw on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy, juxtaposing traditional objects, iconic images, and modern references. House of Oracles echoes that blend by binding photographs, essays, and striking sketchbook pages, which are presented with translations of the artist's calligraphy, in a matte soft cover with two facing spines--it opens with the plates on one side and the essays and artist writings on the other.

 

 

Published by Walker Art Center, 2005

This book is no longer in print.

(Currently unavailable for purchase from Gladstone)

Softcover
English
254 pages
8.5 x 11.5 inches; 21.5 x 29.2 cm
ISBN 978-0935640823