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Film, Video The Fragile, the Flammable and the Forbidden: Books in the Art of Xiaoze Xie

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Title

  • The Fragile, the Flammable and the Forbidden: Books in the Art of Xiaoze Xie

Summary

  • Xie received his Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing and the University of North Texas. Xie has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally, his recent solo exhibitions include "Objects of Evidence" at the Asia Society Museum in New York City (2019-20) and "Eyes On" at the Denver Art Museum (2017-18). Xie's work has garnered critical acclaim, his exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Artnews, and hyperallergic.com, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of such institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Denver Art Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California. Xie received the Asia Game hanger West Award from the Asia Society Northern California (2022), the Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2013), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2003), and artist awards from the Dallas Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Asian Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-09-14.

Notes

  • -  Xiaoze Xie, Yuwu Song.
  • -  Recorded on 2023-09-14.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2025661439

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Asian Division. The Fragile, the Flammable and the Forbidden: Books in the Art of Xiaoze Xie. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-14, 2023. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661439/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Asian Division, S. B. (2023) The Fragile, the Flammable and the Forbidden: Books in the Art of Xiaoze Xie. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-14. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661439/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Asian Division. The Fragile, the Flammable and the Forbidden: Books in the Art of Xiaoze Xie. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-14, 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661439/>.