XU BING WRITINGS
See also Chinese writings.
1981
‘Wohua ziji ai de dongxi, meishu’ [I picture what I love], Meishu (May 1981), 18-*19. Excerpted in Xu Bing, Chun hui Xu Bing banhua zuopin (1986).
‘Jichu sumiao jiaoxue biji’ [Teaching notes for basic drawing], treatise, 1981. Serialized in the journal Meishu xiangdao, 1985-87
1984
‘Wodui muke yishu de jidian sikao’ [A few of my thoughts about woodcut art], Meishu yanjiu, no. 4 (1984), 22-24.
1985
‘Tamen zenyang xiang? Zenyang hua?’ [How do they think? How do they paint?], Meishu, no. 7 (1985), 28-32.
1987
‘Dui fushuxing huihua de xin tansuo yu zai renshi’ [A new exploration and reconsideration of pictorial multiplicity], Meishu, no. 238 (October 1987), 50-51.
1988
‘Sumiao xunlian: Guangyi yu xiayi’ [Drawing instruction: Generally speaking and in practical terms], Meishu yanjiu, no. 4 (November 1988), 36-39.
‘Huahua shizai gansheme’ [What is it to paint?], Beijing qingnian bao, May 31, 1988, 6.
1989
‘Zai pijingchu xunzhao yige biedi’ [Going somewhere quiet to search for another], Beijing qingnian bao, February 10, 1989, 5.
1990
‘Zouchu shisu de fenrao: Wokan ying tianqi de hua’ [Breaking out of the laxity of the mundane: My view on the paintings of Ying Tianqi], Jiangsu huakan (1990), 11.
1991
‘Fenxi yu tiyan: Xiegei Qi Li de xing’ [Analysis and experience: A letter for Qi Li], Hsiung shih meishu, no. 4 (1991), 90-*91. Reprinted (dated 1990, Madison) in Yin Jinan, Duzi koumen/Knocking at the Door Alone (2002), 111-19.
1995
‘Jiu Sheng yu shou zhan da Yi Jinan xiansheng wen’[Q&A with Yi Jinan on Cocido y Crudo], Dongfang, no. 2 (1995), 64-69.
1996
Statement, in Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China, and Korea, exh. brochure (Saitama: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996), n.p.
1997
‘Dongde Gu Yuan’ [Understanding Gu Yuan], Meishu yanjiu 85, no.1 (1997), 15-*17.
1998
‘Jing tiandi, qi guishen’ [To frighten Heaven and Earth and make the spirits cry], in The Library of Babel, exh. cat. (Tokyo, 1998), 64-72.
‘Words Speak for Themselves: Text by Xu Bing (1999)’, Hearth-Net Plus: Portrait of Contemporary Artist, no. 14 (December 1999).
2000
‘Gaining Grass-Roots Experience’, in Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, exh. cat. (Helsinki, 2000), 36-37.
‘Xu Bing’s Statement on Words’, Culture and Morality 4 (2000), 1-7.
2001
‘The Living Word’, in Erickson, Britta, The Art of Xu Bing: Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words (2001), 13-*19. Reprinted in Mair, Victor H., et al., eds., The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005), 642-*45. Excerpted as ‘Xu Bing: Word Play’, trans. by Ann L. Huss, NY Arts 6, no. 12 (December 2001), 19.
‘About “Self-Statement of Words”’ (1999), in Jingying yishujia bairenji/One Hundred Outstanding Artists, ed. by Yi Mo(Beijing: World Chinese Arts Publication Company Limited, 2000), 13.
2002
Letter to the editor, supporting a Museum of Ink in Hong Kong, Orientations (September 2002), 93-94.
2003
‘An Artist’s View’, CANS, no. 63 (March 2003), 67.
2004
‘Guanyu Hechu re chen’ai he Yancao jihua: Durham ji Shanghai’ [Where Does the Dust Collect Itself? and Tobacco Project: Durham and Shanghai], unpublished essay dated April 25, 2006, Xu Bing archives.
‘Images,’ Diacritics 34, no. 3 (2004), 142.
‘Reflections on Practice: To Frighten Heaven and Earth and Make the Spirits Cry’, Visual Communication 3, no. 3 (2004), 337-38.
Statement, in Xu Bing: Tobacco Project: Shanghai, exh. brochure (Shanghai: Shanghai Gallery of Art, 2004), n.p.
Statements, in ‘Transcript of the Symposium at the San Diego Museum of Art’, Yishu (June 2004), 35-40.
2005
Personal statement, Meishu wenxian/Fine Arts Literature, no. 38 (September 2005), 14.
‘Xu Bing: Hewei you zhuanye shuizhun de meishuguan?’ [Xu Bing: What is an art museum with professional standards?], Nanfeng chuang/For the Public Good (December 2005), 84.
2006
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi san: Niao feile’ [Abstract essay no. 3: The living word], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 3 (February 2006), 262.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi si: Yishujia shouzhi shu’ [Abstract essay no. 4: Artist’s book], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 4 (March 2006), 160-72.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi qi: Beihou de gushi’ [Abstract essay no. 7: Background story], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 7 (June 2006),184.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhijiu: Suoyi yong wei xishou de wenzi’ [Abstract essay no. 9: Characters absorbed by the stomach’], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 9 (August 2006), 148.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shi: Chuji duwu’ [Abstract essay no. 10: Beginner reading], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 10 (September 2006), 156.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shiyi: Yingwen fangkuaizi shufa rumen’ [Abstract essay no. 11: Square Word Calligraphy, Shenghuo/Life Magazine, no. 11 (October 2006), 252.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shier: “muotan” de sange banben’ [Abstract essay no. 12: The three versions of Magic Carpet], Shenghuo/Life Magazine, no. 12 (November 2006),156.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shisan: Cong “tianshu” dao “dishu”’ [Abstract essay no. 13: from Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground], Shenghuo/Life Magazine, no. 13 (December 2006),158.
‘Letter to a Young Artist’, in Letters to a Young Artist (New York: Darte Publishing, 2006), 13-17.
2007
‘Regarding Book from the Ground’, Yishu 6, no. 2 (June 2007), 70-75.
See also Chinese writings.
1981
‘Wohua ziji ai de dongxi, meishu’ [I picture what I love], Meishu (May 1981), 18-*19. Excerpted in Xu Bing, Chun hui Xu Bing banhua zuopin (1986).
‘Jichu sumiao jiaoxue biji’ [Teaching notes for basic drawing], treatise, 1981. Serialized in the journal Meishu xiangdao, 1985-87
1984
‘Wodui muke yishu de jidian sikao’ [A few of my thoughts about woodcut art], Meishu yanjiu, no. 4 (1984), 22-24.
1985
‘Tamen zenyang xiang? Zenyang hua?’ [How do they think? How do they paint?], Meishu, no. 7 (1985), 28-32.
1987
‘Dui fushuxing huihua de xin tansuo yu zai renshi’ [A new exploration and reconsideration of pictorial multiplicity], Meishu, no. 238 (October 1987), 50-51.
1988
‘Sumiao xunlian: Guangyi yu xiayi’ [Drawing instruction: Generally speaking and in practical terms], Meishu yanjiu, no. 4 (November 1988), 36-39.
‘Huahua shizai gansheme’ [What is it to paint?], Beijing qingnian bao, May 31, 1988, 6.
1989
‘Zai pijingchu xunzhao yige biedi’ [Going somewhere quiet to search for another], Beijing qingnian bao, February 10, 1989, 5.
1990
‘Zouchu shisu de fenrao: Wokan ying tianqi de hua’ [Breaking out of the laxity of the mundane: My view on the paintings of Ying Tianqi], Jiangsu huakan (1990), 11.
1991
‘Fenxi yu tiyan: Xiegei Qi Li de xing’ [Analysis and experience: A letter for Qi Li], Hsiung shih meishu, no. 4 (1991), 90-*91. Reprinted (dated 1990, Madison) in Yin Jinan, Duzi koumen/Knocking at the Door Alone (2002), 111-19.
1995
‘Jiu Sheng yu shou zhan da Yi Jinan xiansheng wen’[Q&A with Yi Jinan on Cocido y Crudo], Dongfang, no. 2 (1995), 64-69.
1996
Statement, in Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China, and Korea, exh. brochure (Saitama: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996), n.p.
1997
‘Dongde Gu Yuan’ [Understanding Gu Yuan], Meishu yanjiu 85, no.1 (1997), 15-*17.
1998
‘Jing tiandi, qi guishen’ [To frighten Heaven and Earth and make the spirits cry], in The Library of Babel, exh. cat. (Tokyo, 1998), 64-72.
‘Words Speak for Themselves: Text by Xu Bing (1999)’, Hearth-Net Plus: Portrait of Contemporary Artist, no. 14 (December 1999).
2000
‘Gaining Grass-Roots Experience’, in Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, exh. cat. (Helsinki, 2000), 36-37.
‘Xu Bing’s Statement on Words’, Culture and Morality 4 (2000), 1-7.
2001
‘The Living Word’, in Erickson, Britta, The Art of Xu Bing: Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words (2001), 13-*19. Reprinted in Mair, Victor H., et al., eds., The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005), 642-*45. Excerpted as ‘Xu Bing: Word Play’, trans. by Ann L. Huss, NY Arts 6, no. 12 (December 2001), 19.
‘About “Self-Statement of Words”’ (1999), in Jingying yishujia bairenji/One Hundred Outstanding Artists, ed. by Yi Mo(Beijing: World Chinese Arts Publication Company Limited, 2000), 13.
2002
Letter to the editor, supporting a Museum of Ink in Hong Kong, Orientations (September 2002), 93-94.
2003
‘An Artist’s View’, CANS, no. 63 (March 2003), 67.
2004
‘Guanyu Hechu re chen’ai he Yancao jihua: Durham ji Shanghai’ [Where Does the Dust Collect Itself? and Tobacco Project: Durham and Shanghai], unpublished essay dated April 25, 2006, Xu Bing archives.
‘Images,’ Diacritics 34, no. 3 (2004), 142.
‘Reflections on Practice: To Frighten Heaven and Earth and Make the Spirits Cry’, Visual Communication 3, no. 3 (2004), 337-38.
Statement, in Xu Bing: Tobacco Project: Shanghai, exh. brochure (Shanghai: Shanghai Gallery of Art, 2004), n.p.
Statements, in ‘Transcript of the Symposium at the San Diego Museum of Art’, Yishu (June 2004), 35-40.
2005
Personal statement, Meishu wenxian/Fine Arts Literature, no. 38 (September 2005), 14.
‘Xu Bing: Hewei you zhuanye shuizhun de meishuguan?’ [Xu Bing: What is an art museum with professional standards?], Nanfeng chuang/For the Public Good (December 2005), 84.
2006
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi san: Niao feile’ [Abstract essay no. 3: The living word], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 3 (February 2006), 262.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi si: Yishujia shouzhi shu’ [Abstract essay no. 4: Artist’s book], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 4 (March 2006), 160-72.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi qi: Beihou de gushi’ [Abstract essay no. 7: Background story], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 7 (June 2006),184.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhijiu: Suoyi yong wei xishou de wenzi’ [Abstract essay no. 9: Characters absorbed by the stomach’], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 9 (August 2006), 148.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shi: Chuji duwu’ [Abstract essay no. 10: Beginner reading], Shenghuo/City Magazine, no. 10 (September 2006), 156.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shiyi: Yingwen fangkuaizi shufa rumen’ [Abstract essay no. 11: Square Word Calligraphy, Shenghuo/Life Magazine, no. 11 (October 2006), 252.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shier: “muotan” de sange banben’ [Abstract essay no. 12: The three versions of Magic Carpet], Shenghuo/Life Magazine, no. 12 (November 2006),156.
‘Chouxiang de wenzhang zhi shisan: Cong “tianshu” dao “dishu”’ [Abstract essay no. 13: from Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground], Shenghuo/Life Magazine, no. 13 (December 2006),158.
‘Letter to a Young Artist’, in Letters to a Young Artist (New York: Darte Publishing, 2006), 13-17.
2007
‘Regarding Book from the Ground’, Yishu 6, no. 2 (June 2007), 70-75.