Collected Letters: An Installation by Liu Jianhua
San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2016. Paperback. Illustrated wraps; French flaps. 67 pp. full of color images. NF. Item #160921
ISBN: 9780939117758
As a 50th anniversary gift to the museum, the Society for Asian Art has commissioned a major work by Liu Jianhua, one of China's best-known contemporary installation artists. The work comprises approximately 2,500 pieces of white porcelain formed into letters of the English alphabet and components of Chinese characters, suspended from the ceiling of the second-floor loggia. The artist provides only the building blocks of words, leaving it to viewers to create meaning. The artwork's locationis especially apropos: the space offers an opportunity for dialogue with the original engraved literary quotations on the loggia's walls, dating to the building's previous incarnation as San Francisco's Main Library. This is the catalogue from that amazing installation.
OCLC: 936347536
Price: $29.97