Taiwan dang dai, wan gu yu jin = Time Games : Contemporary Appropriations of the Past
Softcover
2012 · Taipei, Taiwan
by Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2012
Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2012. Softcover. VG (Ex-library, with few markings, in Like New condition.). Black cloth papers, folded pages, block bound with red thread, 256 pp., many color & BW illus. Text is in Chinese and English. Issued in conjunction with the 2012 exhibit at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. With essays by Sharleen Yu and Yuki Sheau-shei Pan. Features the work of 23 "contemporary Taiwanese artists who, since the 1990s, have created new works by appropriating old 'classics', drawing on local historical and cultural contexts and their individual life experiences." (foreword) Plates illustrate these topics: calligraphy; landscapes; Taoism and Buddhism; human figures; flowers, birds and beasts; artifacts of antiquity; tales of the mysterious; and photographic images. (Inventory #: 135565)