Ai Weiwei's Blog

Ai Weiwei's Blog

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Ai Weiwei
MIT Press Ltd
EAN: 9780262015219
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Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.

In 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 notorious online writings translated into English the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.

The New York Times called Ai a figure of Warholian celebrity. He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous Bird's Nest stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art lifetime achievement award in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his citizen investigation of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.

EAN 9780262015219
ISBN 0262015218
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher MIT Press Ltd
Publication date March 18, 2011
Pages 336
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 178 x 16
Country United States
Authors Ai Weiwei
Illustrations 58 b&w illus.
Editors Ambrozy Lee
Translators Ambrozy Lee
Series Ai Weiwei's Blog