AI Weiwei

by Bernard Fibicher, Karen Smith, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is truly an artist for the twenty-first century. In his sculptures he refashions artefacts and antiques into surprising, sometimes monumental constructions such as Template (2007): hundreds of wooden doors and windows taken from demolished Ming and Qing dynasty temples and arranged into a massive outdoor sculpture. As much as these materials look to the past, they also speak of the present, because never before (and probably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714848891
• ISBN13: 9780714848891
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.8" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher