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Item Number: 116285
Title: CAI GUO-QIANG : Odyssey
Author: Starkman, Christine
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300179613
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012. 28cm., pbk., 168pp.Exhibition catalogue. Publisher's summary : This commemorative book traces the creation of Odyssey, a monumental work by internationally acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957). Best known for his innovative "explosion projects," Cai arranged, then ignited, gunpowder to produce a massive Chinese-style landscape across forty-two wood panels, which are now permanently installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Cai produced Odyssey with the help of more than one hundred volunteers over five days in October 2010. Photographs documenting the process demonstrate Cai's working methods and the level of community involvement. Accompanying essays analyze Odyssey as a singular work of art, as a portal to the gallery and its other artworks, and as a collaboration among the artist, museum, and communities in Houston. Moreover, this breathtaking work offers a fresh way for viewers to encounter ancient and contemporary Chinese art. (^Available March 2012^)

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