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Zooming in: Histories of Photography in China

By Wu Hung

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9781780235998 | Reaktion Books, June 15, 2016, cover price $57.00

Wang Luyan: Diagramming Allegory

By Wu Hung

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9788857218960 | Skira, April 5, 2016, cover price $55.00

Contemporary Chinese Art: A History 1970s-2000s

By Wu Hung

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9780500239209 | Thames & Hudson, October 14, 2014, cover price $95.00

Ink Art: Past As Present in Contemporary China

Product Description: The Chinese tradition of Âink artâ stretches far beyond works in ink, to embrace a set of aesthetic principles centered on renewal and reinterpretation of the past. The 80 works, by 40 contemporary artists, featured in Ink Art Â range from variations on the written word to radical abstractions to contemporary landscapes, and represent media as diverse as photography, video, ceramic, wood, bronze, and stainless steelÂas well as traditional ink (which might be on cardboard, polyester, or the human body)...read more

By Maxwell K. Hearn and Marcie M. Muscat (editor)

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9780300197037 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 31, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Chinese tradition of Âink artâ stretches far beyond works in ink, to embrace a set of aesthetic principles centered on renewal and reinterpretation of the past.

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu

By Rene De Guzman and Wu Hung (other contributor)

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9780520275218 | Univ of California Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $60.00

A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

By Wu Hung

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Hardcover:

9780691155029 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2012, cover price $66.00

Summer: New Paintings by Zeng Hao

By Wu Hung (editor)

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9789881815002 | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, April 30, 2012), cover price $30.00

Xu Bing: Tobacco Project: Duke / Shanghai / Virginia, 1999-2011

Product Description: Born in Chongqing, China, in 1955, Xu Bing is considered one of the most important artists of his generation. Between 1977 and 1987, he studied and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. He moved to the United States in 1990 and in 1999 received a MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated "genius grant," in recognition of his "capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy...read more

By Wu Hung, Lydia H. Lu, Edward D. Melillo and John B. Ravenal

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9780917046964 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, November 30, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Born in Chongqing, China, in 1955, Xu Bing is considered one of the most important artists of his generation.

Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China

Product Description: Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the Westâs engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. As a result, traditional modes of expression were dramatically transformed. Uncovered here is a captivating visual history of China during photographyâs first century, from the late Qing period to Republican Shanghai and wartime Chongqing...read more

By Jeffrey W. Cody (editor), Wu Hung (introduced by), Edwin K. Lai (contributor) and Frances Terpak (editor)

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9781606060544 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, March 8, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the Westâs engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen.

Re-Imagining the Real Photography Show: Gaolei, Shi Guorui, Yang Fudong, Zhuang Hui

Product Description: Mixing the idioms and the formality of documentary photography with a subtly foregrounded subjectivity, Gao Lei, Shi Guorui, Yang Fudong and Zhuang Hui are representatives of an exciting new strain in contemporary Chinese photography...read more

By Wu Hung (editor)

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9789881881618 | Blue Kingfisher Ltd, February 28, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Mixing the idioms and the formality of documentary photography with a subtly foregrounded subjectivity, Gao Lei, Shi Guorui, Yang Fudong and Zhuang Hui are representatives of an exciting new strain in contemporary Chinese photography.

Miao Xiaochun: 2009-1999

By Uta Grosenick (editor), Wu Hung (contributor), Gregor Jansen (contributor), Alexander Ochs (editor) and Miao Xiaochun (other contributor)

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9783832192853 | Bilingual edition (Dumont, August 30, 2010), cover price $55.00

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

By Wu Hung (editor) and Peggy Wang (contributor)

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9780822349433 | Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $40.00

The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs

Product Description: We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B...read more

By Wu Hung

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9781861896247 | Gardners Books, May 11, 2010, cover price $58.90

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9781861897817 | Reaktion Books, March 15, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese.

Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Artists

Product Description: The companion volume to Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art, this selection of essays on Chinese contemporary artists and their work brings to bear the critical acumen of one of China's leading commentators on modern and contemporary art...read more

By Wu Hung (editor)

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9789881803436 | 1 edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 30, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The companion volume to Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art, this selection of essays on Chinese contemporary artists and their work brings to bear the critical acumen of one of China's leading commentators on modern and contemporary art.

The Art of Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs

Product Description: No other civilization in the premodern world was more obsessed with constructing underground burial structures than China, where for at least five thousand years people devoted a great amount of wealth and labor to build tombs and furnish them with exquisite objects and images...read more

By Wu Hung

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9780824834265 | 1 edition (Univ of Hawaii Pr, April 30, 2010), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: No other civilization in the premodern world was more obsessed with constructing underground burial structures than China, where for at least five thousand years people devoted a great amount of wealth and labor to build tombs and furnish them with exquisite objects and images.

Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art

By Wu Hung

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9789889961701 | Blue Kingfisher Ltd, February 1, 2009, cover price $50.00

Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art

Product Description: Â Â Â Â When it is completed in 2009 the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam which spans the Yangzi River in China, will generate enough electricity to power four cities the size of Los Angeles. Despite the fact that it will drastically reduce coal consumption and eliminate 100 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, the project is entwined in controversy...read more

By Wu Hung

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9780935573466 | Univ of Chicago David & Alfred, October 15, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Â Â Â Â When it is completed in 2009 the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam which spans the Yangzi River in China, will generate enough electricity to power four cities the size of Los Angeles.

Chinese Sculpture

By Yang Hong, Angela Falco Howard (editor), Wu Hung and Li Song

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9780300100655 | Yale Univ Pr, April 28, 2006, cover price $95.00

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art At The End Of The Twentieth Century

Product Description: In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" established a historical framework for current artistic production in China. Organized by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the show and its catalog highlighted the diverse responses of twenty-two artists to Chinas recent history and current social transformation...read more

By Wu Hung

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9780226360713 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" established a historical framework for current artistic production in China.

9780935573275 | Univ of Chicago David & Alfred, September 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century is a groundbreaking and timely exhibition organized by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Chicago.

Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China Portfolio

By Wu Hung (introduced by) and Wang Wusheng (photographer)

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9780789208729 | Ltd ill edition (Abbeville Pr, January 1, 2006), cover price $25000.00

Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China Ltd. Ed.

Product Description: A lavishly produced volume featuring stunning duotone images of Chinaâs fabled Yellow Mountains by the celebrated photographer Wang Wusheng.For more than three decades, Wang Wusheng has been captivated by the beauty of Mount Huangshan, also known as the Yellow Mountains...read more

By Wu Hung (introduced by) and Wang Wusheng (photographer)

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9780789208712, titled "Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China" | Limited edition (Abbeville Pr, January 1, 2006), cover price $3800.00 | About this edition: A lavishly produced volume featuring stunning duotone images of Chinaâs fabled Yellow Mountains by the celebrated photographer Wang Wusheng.

Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China

By Damian Harper, Wu Hung (contributor), Seigo Matsuoka, Wusheng Wang and Wang Wusheng (photographer)

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9780789208675 | Abbeville Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A lavishly produced volume featuring stunning duotone images of Chinaâs fabled Yellow Mountains by the celebrated photographer Wang Wusheng.

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square And The Creation Of A Political Space

Product Description: In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honored character and magnificence. But when Chairman Mao rejected the proposal to build a new capital for the People's Republic of China and decided to stay in the ancient city, he initiated a long struggle to transform Beijing into a shining beacon of socialism...read more

By Wu Hung

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9780226360782 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2005, cover price $91.00 | About this edition: In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honored character and magnificence.

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9780226360799 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honored character and magnificence.

9781861892355 | Gardners Books, August 1, 2005, cover price $30.80 | About this edition: An exploration of modern and contemporary experience in China, through the lens of Tiananmen Square.

Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture

By Wu Hung (editor), Katherine R. Tsiang (editor) and Hung Wu (editor)

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9780674016576 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, December 1, 2004, cover price $75.00

RongRong & Inri: Tui-Transfiguration

By Krista van Fleit (trans), Wu Hung (editor), Ishikawa Iku (trans) and Mao Weidong (trans)

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9789889726263 | Blue Kingfisher Ltd, March 1, 2005, cover price $75.00

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