Book About Xu Bing's Book from the Ground
Book About Xu Bing's Book from the Ground The creation of Xu Bing's Book from the Ground documented and described in text, images, and photographs.Although the pictogram-only narrative in Xu Bing's…
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Book About Xu Bing's Book from the Ground
The creation of Xu Bing's Book from the Ground documented and described in text, images, and photographs.Although the pictogram-only narrative in Xu Bing's Book from the Ground can be read by anyone, there is much more to the story of Xu Bing's wordless book than can be gleaned from icons alone. Using garbled and nonsensical faux-Chinese characters, this installation expressed Xu's doubts about written language and provoked questions about the Chinese language. This companion volume to Book from the Ground chronicles the entire project, mapping the history of Xu Bing's novel creation from inspiration to exhibition to publication.In the 1980s, Xu Bing created Book from the Sky.
Inspired by airport signs that Thirty years later, with Book from the Ground, the artist expresses his hope for a single, universally understood language.