Author: TING - Wolens, Ariella & Bonnie Clearwater & Pierre Alechinsky & Xiao Ju & Mia Ting:
Title: Walasse Ting. Parot Jungle
Description: 2023, (24 x 28 cm), 176 pp. English, 150 colour ills., hardcover. In association with NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. The extraordinary world of the artist Walasse Ting (1928-2010). Walasse Ting (1928-2010) was one of the most radical and independent artists of his time. His work fused the traditions of Chinese art with the joy of the Northern European Cobra movement, and combined the electric colors of Pop Art with the kinesthetic power of Abstract Expressionism. Until now, recognition of Ting's art historical legacy in the West has primarily been limited to his artist's book, 1¢ Life (1964), a folio conceived by Ting and edited by Sam Francis, which featured work by 27 of Ting's artist friends, including Roy Lichtenstein, Asger Jorn, Allan Kaprow, Kiki Kogelnik, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle goes beyond 1¢ Life, reflecting on the greater narrative of Ting's abundant oeuvre. It also provides readers the opportunityto immerse themselves in Ting's world, in which female figures with rainbow-colored flesh are surrounded by flora, fauna and a wild menagerie of cats, parrots, grasshoppers, butterflies and flamingos. It also documents the story of Ting's diasporic life, the formation of his transnational identity and his defiantly bold spirit. Ting is an artist plagued with the gift of being born too soon. He was a global artist before universal cultural exchange defined modern life.Hi s work eludes the restrictions used to form historical narratives, which rely on neatly placing artists and artworks in fixed national and stylistic groupings. Western art history's inability to situate Ting in a singular construct has lead him to be omitted from many of the cultural narratives in which he played a pivotal role.
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Title: Walasse Ting. Parot Jungle
Description: 2023, (24 x 28 cm), 176 pp. English, 150 colour ills., hardcover. In association with NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. The extraordinary world of the artist Walasse Ting (1928-2010). Walasse Ting (1928-2010) was one of the most radical and independent artists of his time. His work fused the traditions of Chinese art with the joy of the Northern European Cobra movement, and combined the electric colors of Pop Art with the kinesthetic power of Abstract Expressionism. Until now, recognition of Ting's art historical legacy in the West has primarily been limited to his artist's book, 1¢ Life (1964), a folio conceived by Ting and edited by Sam Francis, which featured work by 27 of Ting's artist friends, including Roy Lichtenstein, Asger Jorn, Allan Kaprow, Kiki Kogelnik, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle goes beyond 1¢ Life, reflecting on the greater narrative of Ting's abundant oeuvre. It also provides readers the opportunityto immerse themselves in Ting's world, in which female figures with rainbow-colored flesh are surrounded by flora, fauna and a wild menagerie of cats, parrots, grasshoppers, butterflies and flamingos. It also documents the story of Ting's diasporic life, the formation of his transnational identity and his defiantly bold spirit. Ting is an artist plagued with the gift of being born too soon. He was a global artist before universal cultural exchange defined modern life.Hi s work eludes the restrictions used to form historical narratives, which rely on neatly placing artists and artworks in fixed national and stylistic groupings. Western art history's inability to situate Ting in a singular construct has lead him to be omitted from many of the cultural narratives in which he played a pivotal role.
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Price: EUR 42.50 = appr. US$ 46.19 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 8599
- Book number: 8599
See more books from our catalog: Monografieën / Monographs