Ding Yi

The first monograph to examine the entire career to Chinese artist Ding Yi.

List of contents

Foreword; Chapter 1: Early Work; Chapter 2: The Tartans; Chapter 3: The Fluorescents; Chapter 4: Recent Works; Notes; Bibliography; Biography; Exhibitions; Public Collections; Acknowledgements; Image Credits; Index

About the author

Tony Godfrey is an independent writer and curator who has been writing about contemporary art for over forty years. His books include New Image in Painting (1986), Conceptual Art (1998), Painting Today (2009) and The Story of Contemporary Art (2020). In 2009 he moved from the United Kingdom to Asia, initially to Singapore and then to the Philippines.

Kaimei Wang graduated from Beijing Normal University and holds a MA in contemporary art from Sotheby's Institute of Art. She is a frequent writer for several major art magazines and the founder of an independent film festival in China. She has lived in Shanghai since 2010 and has been actively involved in the Chinese contemporary-art scene through close connections with artists, museums and other art institutions.

Summary

The first monograph to examine the entire career to Chinese artist Ding Yi.

Additional text

'The quality of Ding Yi's art in abstract aesthetics and logic has reached the highest achievement. His art can be regarded as part of the Zen meditation and is the complete interpretation of time, space and the passage through life.'

Product details

• Authors: Tony Godfrey, Tony Wang Godfrey, Kaimei Wang
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781848223790
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-379-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Contemporary Painters Series; Contemporary Painters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Asian / Chinese, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Chinese artist;contemporary art;crosses and grids