Ai Weiwei's blog : writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009
TitleAi Weiwei's blog : writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009
Place of publicationCambridge
PublisherMIT Press
Year of publication2011
Pagination307 p.
Illustrationsill.
Dimensions23 cm
Materialboek
Series titleWriting art series
ISBN978-0-262-01521-9
NotesIn 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government’s "tofu-dregs engineering"), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for "fraud" by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's online writings translated into English--the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.
Subjectartists texts, social history*
Persons keyword Ai Weiwei
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| B-2011/187 | ,73,WEIWEI,2 | Available |
| Copy number | B-2011/187 |
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| Loan status | Available |