{"product_id":"liu-ye-the-book-paintings-hardcover","title":"Liu Ye: The Book Paintings - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLiu Ye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eZhu Zhu\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books)), \u003cb\u003eHans Ulrich Obrist\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Chinese artist Liu Ye's meticulous, colorful canvases convey his love of literature in the first publication dedicated to his paintings of books.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiu is known for his precise, deftly rendered representational paintings. Drawn from contemporary culture and old master painting, his wide-ranging visual touchstones include Piet Mondrian, Miffy the Bunny, Balthus, and Rogier van der Weyden. In this new publication devoted to his book paintings, the artist examines the book as both a physical object and cultural totem. Playing with geometry and perspective, Liu creates extraordinary and disorienting portraits of this most familiar subject. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Liu's \u003ci\u003eBook Painting\u003c\/i\u003e series, begun in 2013, depicts close-up views of books that are turned open to reveal empty pages, an approach that emphasizes the object's form over its content. Rendering books' material structure--endpapers, binding, spine--in sensual detail, these paintings indicate an obsession with the book as an object and a lifelong love of literature. Liu's father was a children's book author who introduced him to Western writers at a young age, fueling his curiosity and imagination. Many of the books in his father's collection were banned in Cultural Revolution-era China and the artist read them secretly throughout his childhood. This formative experience figures in his popular \u003ci\u003eBanned Books\u003c\/i\u003e series and in his book paintings in general. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition presented at David Zwirner New York in 2020, this catalogue includes new writing by the acclaimed poet Zhu Zhu, who traces the evolution of the book form in Liu's work, as well as an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeijing-born painter \u003cb\u003eLiu Ye\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1964) combines abstraction and figuration to create bold, meditative paintings that investigate the intersections of history and representation through a distinct vocabulary that transcends traditional Eastern and Western art-historical categories. Drawing on both his childhood memories of China and his early education in Europe, the artist's carefully balanced, methodical compositions play on perspective and ways of seeing, while also referencing a diverse range of aesthetic, literary, and cultural sources. Among these are the fairy-tale worlds of Hans Christian Andersen and Lewis Carroll; literature by Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabokov; and modernist painting, architecture, and design, from Balthus to the Bauhaus. These various points of reference have inspired Liu's artistic output for more than twenty-five years, resulting in a body of work that is at once rich in its historical quotations and singularly his own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eZhu Zhu\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, curator, and art critic. He is the author of various collections of poetry, prose, and art criticism, including \u003ci\u003eBlue Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Great Wall\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). He is the recipient of the Anne Kao Poetry Prize and the Chinese Contemporary Art Award for criticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHans Ulrich Obrist\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles, and Senior Artistic Advisor at The Shed in New York. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show \u003ci\u003eWorld Soup (The Kitchen Show)\u003c\/i\u003e in 1991, he has curated more than 350 exhibitions, his recent shows include \u003ci\u003eIT'S URGENT \u003c\/i\u003eat LUMA Arles (2019-2021), and \u003ci\u003eEnzo Mari \u003c\/i\u003eat Triennale Milano (2020). Obrist's recent publications include \u003ci\u003eWays of Curating\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Earthquakes\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eLives of the Artists, Lives of Architects \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eMondialité\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Totally Else\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) \u003ci\u003eThe Athens Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eAn Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eMaria Lassnig: Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eEntrevistas Brasileiras: Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Extreme Self: Age of You\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and \u003ci\u003e140 Ideas for Planet Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 11.2 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175189758201,"sku":"9781644230367","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZGpuMVYvaHJJSUZkR1lJMThPeGZDZz09.webp?v=1767662093","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/liu-ye-the-book-paintings-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}