Cai Guo-Qiang by Dana Friis-Hansen

Cai Guo-Qiang by Dana Friis-Hansen

A tribute to the Chinese artist's ambitious, internationally celebrated work.

On the Contemporary Artists Series

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"Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment."—The Art Book

Dana Friis-Hansen is Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Austin Museum of Art in Texas. Previously he was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1995-99), Associate Curator at Nanjo and Associates in Tokyo (1991-5) and Curator at the List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (1989-91). Friss-Hansen was co-curator (with Fumio Nanjo) of 'TransCulture' at the 1995 Venice Biennale.

Octavio Zaya is a critic and curator. Advisor of Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC) in Leon, Spain, and co-director of Atlàntica, a bilingual quarterly magazine of art and culture, he also belongs to the editorial board for NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art and Lab 71 (New York), and is a US correspondent for Flash Art. He has co-curated such international exhibitions as the 1st and 2nd Johannesburg Biennials (1995 and 1997) and Documenta 11 (2002).

Takashi Serizawa, once an urban designer, is now Director of the environmental and art organisation P3 Art and Environment in Tokyo. He is the author of View from the Moon: Hints on Living in the Twenty-first Century (1999), and the publisher of the website REALTOKYO.

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ISBN 13	9780714840758
ISBN 10	0714840750
Title	Cai Guo-Qiang
Author	Dana Friis-Hansen
Series	Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Phaidon Press Ltd
Year published	2002-04-17
Number of pages	160
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.