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Xu Bing - Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground (Hardcover)
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Xu Bing - Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground (Hardcover)
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"The written word is the most basic element of human culture. To
touch the written word is to touch the essence of culture." - Xu
Bing Book from the Sky certainly seemed to have fallen from the
heavens: the text of this installation piece was written in a new
language that resembled traditional Chinese. No matter who scours
Xu Bing's book for 'meaning', they will only discover a semblance
of it: mutated characters that resist interpretation. Carving out
approximately four thousand wood blocks by hand, Xu Bing spent four
years, from 1987 to 1991, making (in his own words) "something that
said nothing". After creating a book no one could read, it only
made sense for Xu Bing to develop his next project: a book that
transcended barriers of language: Book from the Ground. Composed
entirely of pictographs, Book from the Ground is a groundbreaking
study into the concept of universal communication. Whether his goal
is total comprehension or confusion, Xu Bing's masterful
exploration of language challenges the way we think about the
written word.
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