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Liu Xiaodong

John Yau

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English
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
27 May 2021
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date.

Immersing himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks to present people who often sit on the fringes of society who find themselves marginalised within a contemporary world striving for homogenisation. At first glance a traditional realist painter, closer examination reveals an artist exploring a range of media while interrogating the opportunities presented by modern technology. The result is an outstanding body of work, often monumental in scale, that examines, reconsiders, and extends observational painting in fresh directions, while bringing into question the lines between fact and fiction, the traditional and the contemporary, to create a wholly original vision.

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Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 280mm,  Width: 240mm, 
ISBN:   9781848224162
ISBN 10:   1848224168
Series:   Contemporary Painters Series
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: 1963-1995; Chapter 2: 1995–2004; Chapter 3: 2005–2016 -Inside China; Chapter 4: 2015-2020; Notes; Select bibliography; Biography; Exhibitions; Public collections; Acknowledgements; Image credits; Index

John Yau is an award-winning poet, art critic and curator who has published many books of poetry, fiction and art criticism. He is the author of two volumes on American painters Thomas Nozkowski and Philip Taaffe for the Lund Humphries Contemporary Painters Series.

Reviews for Liu Xiaodong

"'Some time ago I asserted that Liu Xiaodong's way of painting is ""Dirty Realism"". Today, the world has become even dirtier, and it needs to be faced in a ""dirtier way""! John Yau's book recommends us to look at and research his work more comprehensively. This is not only to remind us that painting (as a way to ""intervene in reality"") can remain a significant way to continue to live. It also helps us, through exploring Xiaodong's particular and ""dirty"" way of ""intervening in reality"" (""to mingle with the dirty world but not to be made dirty by it""), confront this dirty world bravely but also peacefully.' -- Hou Hanru * Artistic Director, Maxxi, Rome *"


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