Listening to and Looking at Ai Weiwei
Within just a few days in the spring of 2011, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei became the world's most famous dissident and victim of governmental repression, and the most talk about maker of public art in NYC. Those who follow the art world knew Weiwei well, for he had firmly established his ident...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Salmagundi (Saratoga Springs) 2011-10 (172/173), p.28-40 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Within just a few days in the spring of 2011, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei became the world's most famous dissident and victim of governmental repression, and the most talk about maker of public art in NYC. Those who follow the art world knew Weiwei well, for he had firmly established his identity as provocateur years ago, and the government repression--brutal and inhumane and largely counter-productive as it has been--could hardly have surprised the artist or his supporters. Among other things Molesworth shares that is is hard to imagine Weiwei singning his name to any sort of confession or submitting to the sort of reeducation that his father faced. |
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ISSN: | 0036-3529 2330-0876 |