House of oracles : a Huang Yong Ping retrospective / edited by Philippe Vergne and Doryun Chong ; with contributions by Fei Dawei, Hou Hanru, Huang Yong Ping ; texts by Huang Yong Ping translated by Yu Hsiao Hwei.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Walker Art Center,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
112, 96 pages, 46 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 30 cm
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota Oct. 16, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006 and at the MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts Feb. 19, 2006-Jan. 8, 2007. Two separately numbered sections, bound back to front. Includes bibliographical references (108-111).
Contents:
Two-minute wash cycle : Huang Yong Ping's Chinese period / Fei Dawei -- Change is the rule / Hou Hanru -- Why am I afraid of Huang Yong Ping? / Philippe Vergne -- Writings by Huang Yong Ping -- 1 Notebook 01, 1980-1989 -- 2 Chance, 1985-1987 -- 3 Xiamen Dada and Chan Buddhism, 1986-1988 -- 4 Discourse-art-power, 1985-1999 -- 5 Notes on augury, 1992-2003 -- Editor's afterword -- Huang Yong Ping : a lexicon / Doryun Chong -- Plates -- Four paintings created according to random instructions -- Wheel -- The beard was easiest to burn -- Ruben's lion bites Ruben's horse -- Mona-Vinci -- Dust -- The history of Chinese painting and the history of modern western art washed in the washing machine for two minutes -- Itchy on the front, numb on the back -- Kitchen -- Large turntable with four wheels -- Manuscript goes through the wall -- Trousers with firecrackers -- Selection from investigative forms -- Roulette wheel with six criteria -- Drawing away the national art gallery -- The house of oracles -- Face/brain -- The first phone call to Joseph Beuys after his death -- Preparatory drawing for large turntable with four wheels -- Untitled -- 108 cards -- Theater of the world--bridge theater of the world -- Passage -- The wise man learns from the spider how to spin a web -- The pharmacy -- Da Xian--the doomsday -- Palanquin -- Globe -- Sixty-year cycle chariot -- Eight-legged hat -- Bank of sand, sand of bank -- Python -- Travel guide for 2000-2042 -- Bat project -- 11 June 2002--the nightmare of George V -- Two typhoons -- Yong Ping--ping pong -- Amerigo Vespucci -- Long drawing of the bat project -- Three wings -- The pole of the East.
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