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Book from the ground : from point to point  Cover Image Book Book

Book from the ground : from point to point / by Xu Bing.

Xu, Bing, 1955- (artist.).

Summary:

"Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct this narrative. The result is a readable story without words recording 24 hours in the day of the life of a typical urban white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual language, the text could be published anywhere without translation"--Back cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780262027083 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 0262027089 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: 112 pages : all ill. ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: North Adams, Massachusetts : Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ; [2013]

Content descriptions

Language Note:
Text consists entirely of computer icons and other pictographic symbols.
Source of Description Note:
Title from back cover.
Subject: Icons (Computer graphics) > Fiction.
White collar workers > Fiction.
Genre: Artists' books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Emily Carr University of Art + Design X8 B66 (Text) 30235599 Artists' Book (ask at Reference Desk) Not holdable Available -


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