id:			372091
accession number:	2019.240
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.240
updated:		2024-03-26 02:02:09.460000

Family Plots (from series of Repetitions), 1988. 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 2019.240 © Xu Bing

title:				Family Plots (from series of Repetitions)
title in original language:	庄稼地
series:				
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creation date:			1988
creation date earliest:		1988
creation date latest:		1988
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creditline:			Gift of Joe and Nancy Keithley
copyright:			© Xu Bing

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culture:	China
technique:	woodcut print with ink on paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Xu Bing (Chinese, b. 1955)  - artist
Xu Bing is one of China’s 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. Xu moved to the US in 1990 where he lived for 18 years before returning to Beijing.
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measurements: 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.)
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	inscription:	Signed by the artist: 徐冰 and Xu Bing
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	inscription:	One seal: 冰
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	inscription:	Lower margin, in graphite: 30/100 庄稼地; seal; 徐冰 Xu Bing 1988
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists (Chinese art rotation)
	opening date:   2020-02-06T05:00:00
	<i>Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists (Chinese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 6-August 16, 2020).

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Booklyn, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–2019
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2019–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Vainker, S. J., Bing Xu, Judith Goldman, and Peter D. McDonald. <em>Landscape/Landscript: Nature As Language in the Art of Xu Bing</em>. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 69, pp. 100, 108
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	Von Spee, Clarissa.  “Acquisitions 2019.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 8-11.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 11.
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