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Tag Archives: Ai Wei Wei
Empty subjects, empty worlds
The choice of Ai Weiwei to quote in the previous post may seem odd, because there are certainly other sources for the same ideas, perhaps more eloquent, or more purely involved in aesthetics. But I like to hear Ai say … Continue reading
Inwardness projected
As I discussed in the posts about R.H.Quaytman, inside and outside are arbitrary distinctions, and it is this fact which is responsible for the skepticism about the self exhibited by the more sophisticated members of the art world. Perhaps art … Continue reading
Posted in Principles of Abstraction, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, aesthetics, Ai Wei Wei, Linsley, nature, R.H.Quaytman, society, subjectivity
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Jack Vance
From Julian Barbour and the block universe to minimalism to the negative social sublime of Smithson and Ai Weiwei, I’ve been wondering about a temporal perspective that denies change, that posits a kind of steady state. Obviously these sources are … Continue reading
Time and Ai Weiwei
I’ve just finished writing a review for the magazine Yishu. It’s a comparison between two recently published books, Ai Weiwei’s blog posts and Gao Minglu’s historical study of the Chinese avant-garde, Total Modernity. I love Ai’s whole attitude. He is … Continue reading
As Ai Wei Wei sees it
Self-reflection is the process of modernism, although we usually give it the more portentous label of self-criticism. Self-reflection is also how the individual’s subjectivity or inwardness grows, how they find their own limits and possibilities. On the social scale self-reflection … Continue reading
Global politics of modernism
I need to do more research on Ai Wei Wei, including trying to find some of his writings, but I think the important thing is his straightforward equation of self-reflection, both in art and in the subject, with democratic nation … Continue reading
Ai Wei Wei and the modernist interior
I’m not especially interested in Ai Wei Wei’s work, I find it to be more or less typical contemporary global conceptualism, but I think that his understanding of modern art is brilliant and very important for China and the rest … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics of Abstraction, Principles of Abstraction
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, Ai Wei Wei, meaning, society, subjectivity
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