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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp. With candor and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist—and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime.Ai Weiwei’s sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements include helping to design the iconic Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing. His political activism has long made him a target of the Chinese authorities, which culminated in months of secret detention without charge in 2011. Here, for the first time, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his life story and that of his father, whose creativity was stifled.At once ambitious and intimate, Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression.

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documentaries [documents] --- Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career.These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the meaning of citizenship, moving his studio to Lesbos to be on the front lines of the migrant crisis, how to make art, and technology as a tool for freedom or oppression. Ai opens up about his relationship to his father as a poet and as a dissident forced into hard labor in a small village after the Cultural Revolution. He conjures up scenes from his long relationship with New York: dropping out of Parsons because he couldn't afford tuition, making portraits in Washington Square Park as an undocumented immigrant in the 1980s, taking photos for the New York Times at demonstrations in Tompkins Square Park, and returning to set up the Good Fences Make Good Neighbors project across the city." -- Publisher's description.

Dissenters, Artistic. --- Ai, Weiwei

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Art --- architecture [discipline] --- political art --- sculpting --- Ai Weiwei --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- kunst en politiek --- China --- politiek --- activisme --- conceptuele kunst --- concept art --- architectuur --- kunst en architectuur --- design --- film --- installaties --- 7.071 WEIWEI --- 7.07 --- 72.07 --- Beeldende kunst ; architectuur ; 21ste eeuw ; 1995-2011 ; Ai Wei Wei --- Kunst en maatschappijkritiek ; activisme ; China --- Kunst en politiek --- Architectuur ; 21ste eeuw ; Ai Wei Wei --- Ai, Weiwei °1957 (°Peking, China) --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z

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Pendant son incarcération en 2011, repensant au fossé d'incompréhension qui s'était creusé entre son père et lui, Ai Weiwei décide d'écrire ses mémoires pour que son enfant n'ait pas les mêmes regrets. Ai Weiwei est le fils du grand poète chinois Ai Qing, ami de Mao Tsé-Toung. Violemment critiqué lors de la Révolution culturelle, ce dernier est envoyé avec sa famille en camp de travail. Avec une absolue franchise et beaucoup d'esprit, dans ses mémoires intimes illustrés de cinquante dessins inédits, Ai Weiwei revient pour la première fois sur son enfance, sa jeunesse dans les camps pendant 17 ans, son éveil à l'art, sa formation à New York, son cheminement personnel, son amitié avec Allen Ginsberg ainsi que l'influence de Duchamp et de Warhol sur son travail. Il raconte sa prise de conscience de la puissance révolutionnaire de l'art, la façon dont la vie dans un régime totalitaire a façonné son œuvre, ses provocations qui lui vaudront d'être incarcéré de nombreuses fois, son exil, et la permanence de son combat contre le système chinois. À travers une plongée passionnante dans la Chine de Mao Tsé-Toung à aujourd'hui, voici le récit d'un destin hors norme, de l'anonymat au statut d'artiste superstar et figure de l'engagement contre la répression.

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