Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
Design Museum (Verlag)
978-1-872005-63-8 (ISBN)

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The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei’s approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects.

Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector – whatever mode Ai Weiwei is in, he is trying to tell us something about the state of the world. This book presents Ai’s work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Confronted by the rapid pace of change in his country, Ai became fascinated by Chinese antiquities.

His vast collections of historical artefacts, from Stone Age tools to broken teapot spouts, attest to the way the language of objects speaks across the ages. Is this a classic tale of technical progress, or have we lost crucial qualities with the march of time? Ai invites us to make sense of these objects as he explores the tensions between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.

Justin McGuirk is chief curator at the Design Museum and the director of Future Observatory. Contributors: Brian Dillon, Rachel Hajek, Julia Lovell, Tim Marlow, Justin McGuirk, Wang Shu, Eyal Weizman

- Foreword
- Introduction
- Introduction to Beijing Photographs, 1993 – 2003

Part I – Works
- Evidence
- Construction/Destruction
- Ordinary Things

Part II – Texts
- Collecting China
- To Meet by Chance
- I Felt the Wind, the Air...
- One Hundred Thousand Things
- In Conversation: Eyal Weizman and Ai Weiwei

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	160 Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-872005-63-2 / 1872005632
ISBN-13	978-1-872005-63-8 / 9781872005638
Zustand	Neuware