Chapter Four Making Natural Languages in Contemporary Chinese Art

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Dilemma in Contemporary Chinese Art xiii
6. Reading and Misreading 1
7. Reading Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky 33
8. Seriousness, Playfulness, and a Religious Reading of Tianshu 67
9. Making Natural Languages in Contemporary Chinese Art 95
10. The Living Word 117
11. Transmission of Meanings 147
12. The Space Between 177
13. Bibliography on Xu Bing and Related Issues in Contemporary Chinese Art 199
14. List of Important Events between 1979 and 2005 211
15. Contributors 225
16. Index 229