Ai Weiwei : Circle of animals / edited and with an introduction by Susan Delson.
This title looks at Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Heads', his twelve large bronze animal heads depicting the ancient Chinese zodiac.
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Munich ; New York :
Prestel,
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Table of Contents:
- Headlong into history / Susan Delson
- Circle of animals/zodiac heads : bronze / texts by Paola Dematte
- "My work is always a readymade" / interview with Ai Weiwei
- Monkey king makes havoc : Ai Weiwei conducts a carnival of the animals / Karen Smith
- The original and the copy : Ai Weiwei and the fate of the zodiac heads / Charles Merewether
- Circle of animals/zodiac heads : gold
- Circle of animals/zodiac heads and the twelve-animal cycle in China / Paola Dematte
- Mid-Qing arts and Jesuit visions : visual encounters and exchanges in 18th-century Beijing / Marco Musillo
- Heads of state : looting, nationalism, and repatriation of the Zodiac bronzes / Kristina Kleutghen
- The heads at auction : two experts weigh in / Lark E. Mason & Joe-Hynn Yang
- The zodiac heads and the auction block / Colin Jones.