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"tombstone": "Mountain Place (from series of Repetitions) (\u6709\u5c71\u7684\u5730\u65b9), 1987. Xu Bing (Chinese, b. 1955). Woodcut print with ink on paper; image: 52.8 x 73.2 cm (20 13/16 x 28 13/16 in.); sheet: 66.7 x 85.2 cm (26 1/4 x 33 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joe and Nancy Keithley, 2019.239. \u00a9 Xu Bing",
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"title": "Mountain Place (from series of Repetitions)",
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"inscription": "Lower margin, in graphite: 30/100 \u6709\u5c71\u7684\u5730\u65b9; seal; \u5f90\u51b0 Xu Bing 1988",
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"title": "Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists",
"description": "Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 6-November 1, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2020-02-06T05:00:00"
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"id": 396695,
"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
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"description": "(Booklyn, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "While living in the mountains during the Cultural Revolution, Xu was in demand as the village portraitist and calligrapher for weddings and funerals.",
"description": "Xu created five Series of Repetitions to explore the process of printmaking. He printed images of the series in different stages, each time carving away a little bit more of the block\u2019s surface. The first print is the darkest; the final one is the lightest with the image being entirely effaced. This print represents a stage in the process when the image was most legible. Some prints show Chinese characters, indications for his later works featuring writing and language called \u201clandscripts\u201d\u2014images made with script.
As a child, Xu had access to a world of books: his mother worked in the library and his father in the history department at Peking University. Toward the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1974, Xu was sent to a rural village north of Beijing for \u201cre-education.\u201d The Cultural Revolution taught him the power of words and text, while the interruption of his formal schooling gave him time to practice writing and teach himself woodcut techniques.",
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"citation": "Vainker, S. J., Bing Xu, Judith Goldman, and Peter D. McDonald. Landscape/Landscript: Nature As Language in the Art of Xu Bing. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2013.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 70, pp. 100, 108",
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"citation": "von Spee, Clarissa. \u201cAcquisitions 2019.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 8\u201311.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10; Mentioned: p. 11",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2020-02/page/n5/mode/2up"
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"citation": "Von Spee, Clarissa. \"Chinese Ceramics and Works on Paper.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194-229. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 224-227; Mentioned: p. 275",
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"biography": "Xu Bing is one of China\u2019s most outstanding conceptual contemporary artists. He is internationally recognized for using Chinese characters, the written word or character and language to challenge assumptions about human society and communication. He grew up in Beijing, was initially trained in printmaking, and received his MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing in 1987. His multi-disciplinary artwork has been displayed at prestigious venues and is held in numerous collections worldwide. Xu moved to the US in 1990 where he lived for 18 years; today he lives and works in New York and Beijing.",
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