Ai Weiwei's Blog Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

Name: Ai Weiwei's Blog Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
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ISBN: 9780262015219

ISBN-10: 0262015218

ISBN-13: 9780262015219

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ai Weiwei, Lee Ambrozy, Lee Ambrozy, Roger Conover

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In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's "tofu-dregs engineering"), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for "fraud" by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Lee Ambrozy is the Editor of artforum.com.cn, Artforum's Chinese language website.