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Karen smith, the curator and critic, has done invaluable work on chinese art for years, including a long essay last year about ai weiwei in a book from phaidon press. Ai weiwei, chinese artist and activist whose work included sculptural installations, architectural projects, photographs, and videos. Upon his release, he was prohibited from traveling abroad, engaging in public speech, and was subjected to continued. Eighteen years ago, phaidon published the art book. But as chinese artist ai weiweis new book weiweiisms. Ai weiwei by uli sigg offers a comprehensive overview of weiweis work. Renowned for his profound political art that takes a modern approach to traditional chinese crafts, weiweis journey has been fraught with difficulties and punctuated by prison terms. Apparently not the producers of this book, whove simply arranged moreorless random examples.
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