Bibliograph

Kwang Young Chun, mulberry mindscapes, [texts by] John C. Welchman, Carter Ratcliff [and Kwang Young Chun]

Type

Label

Kwang Young Chun, mulberry mindscapes, [texts by] John C. Welchman, Carter Ratcliff [and Kwang Young Chun]

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kwang Young Chun

Oclc number

856977371

Responsibility statement

[texts by] John C. Welchman, Carter Ratcliff [and Kwang Young Chun]

Sub title

mulberry mindscapes

Summary

The first monograph on Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, renowned for exquisite handmade mulberry paper sculptures and textured surfaces that represent harmony and conflict in the unity of many. Covering the entirety of Kwang Young Chun's career from his early abstract paintings to his famed Aggregation series--complex structures and canvases created from the antique, handmade mulberry paper pages of literary and academic texts and tinted with teas, fruits and flowers--this book documents a highly influential contemporary artist whose work, writes the New York Times, " ... makes you sense something fundamental about great art that is too often forgotten or overlooked in today's age of instant everything ..."

Table Of Contents

Terraform: The Art Of Kwang Young Chun / John C. Welchman -- The Aggregations: Kwang Young Chun And The Human Condition / Carter Ratcliff -- Plates -- Information: A Long Journey Of Confrontation, Conflict, Union, And Its End / Kwang Young Chun

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