Ai Weiwei

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Artist, designer, architect, creator, publisher, and curator: Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is a in point of fact 21st–century creative, influential across a number of media. All over his childhood, criticism of his father’s poetry—he was once labeled as a dissident—meant that Ai and his circle of relatives were exiled to a remote region of China for 16 years. Following the death of Chairman Mao, Ai left to train as an artist in Beijing and New York. Ai is today an artist of global stature, and his strong social moral sense has galvanized a generation of Chinese artists. With works that touch on topics such as imprisonment, borders, and disaster, Ai has incessantly found himself in conflict with the Chinese authorities.

Ai Weiwei is published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Royal Academy in London—the largest showing of Ai’s work up to now. This volume includes installations and works of art specially created for the exhibition, an interview with Ai by Tim Marlow, and contributions from a team of scholars, analyzing the variety of Ai’s output and concerns.


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