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Building the New Ashmolean (Paperback)
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Building the New Ashmolean (Paperback)
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List price R632
Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
You Save R117 (19%)
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Weimin He's 324 ink drawings, pen sketches and woodblock prints
comprise an intimate record of the progress of construction in the
newly designed Ashmolean Museum that opened late last year. An
unusual approach to documentation in the age of digital
photography, the catalogue provides a delightful art experience for
readers who will never set foot in the Ashmolean, which is the
museum for the University of Oxford. Weimin has drawn workers
lifting roof beams, welding metal rods and pouring cement into the
mixer. He gives us behind-the-scenes portraits of museum personnel,
making each individual come alive, for example, an objects
conservator at her work and a researcher in the prints room at his.
An artist-in-residence at the museum and an art scholar, Weimin
employed Chinese drawing and woodblock printmaking methods. His
portraits were drawn on pi, xuan papers or album leaves, with
Chinese brushes and inks that have been used for over a millennium.
Seven of the prints and the catalogue were presented to Queen
Elizabeth for the museum's opening.
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