Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)

You get the idea early on, with photos of Chinese-born, New York-based artist Ai Weiwei dropping a 2000-year old Han Dynasty urn. Oops. No, that's the point. This exhibition catalog/monograph from Ai's first solo exhibition outside New York gives a comprehensive picture of this unconventional artist's approach to the undoing of assumptions about rare and old ceramics. Whether it's his More »