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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months, he quickly became the art world's most famous missing person. Since then, Ai Weiwei's critiques of China's repressive regime have ranged from playful photographs of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials to the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Against a backdrop of strict censorship, Ai has become a hero on social media to millions of Chinese citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, prohibited from publication in China, offers an intimate look at Ai Weiwei's world in the years after his return from New York and preceding his imprisonment and global superstardom. The photographs capture Ai's emergence as the uniquely provocative artist that he is today. There is no more revealing portrait of Ai Weiwei's life in China than this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book contains more than 600 carefully sequenced images culled from an archive of more than 40,000 photographs taken by Ai: a narrative arc carefully shaped by an artist keenly aware of photography's ability to tell stories. It includes a shattering series of photographs taken between 1993 and 1996 devoted to the final illness and death of Ai's father Ai Qing. 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He builds bridges through art and has been fighting to create, maintain and grow passageways for communication almost all his life. From single objects like Coca Cola Vase to structures like Forever Bicycles to installations like Sunflower Seeds, Ai Weiwei’s art is displayed publicly in numerous countries; renowned museums are desperate to get their hands on his artifacts. But who is the person behind the international label “Ai Weiwei,” and what drives his restless creative mind?   Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 to Chinese poet and government critic Ai Quing and grew up in Manchuria and Xinjiang, where his father was exiled, before later relocating to the United States. In 2011—now back in China—he was prevented from leaving the country and imprisoned for 81 days.  Shaped by these early experiences, Ai Weiwei began to feel like an outsider at an early age. It is this existential feeling of displacement that Ai Weiwei transforms into the universal through art. Hardly any other work highlights his sensitivity towards the topic more than his film Human Flow, which was shown worldwide and is the result of large-scale research on refugee movements across the globe. His philosophical reflections in this book directly relate to his time in Berlin, in the autumn of 2015, those weeks when everything changed in Germany. Watching Berlin's transformation spurred Ai Weiwei to venture out and visit refugee camps all over the world.   In “Manifesto without Borders”, his memories become a confessio far beyond l´art pour l´art and the technocratic truisms of politicians. 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