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First published 2019
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ISBN 978 0 7148 7877 5
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Commissioning Editor: Rebecca Morrill
Consultant Editor: Karen Wright
Content Editor: Louise Elderton
Assistant Editor: Catalina Imizcoz
Picture Researcher: Annalaura Palma
Production Controller: Rebecca Price
Design: Pentagram
Printed in Italy
Dialogue 1989, installation and performance at ‘China/Avant-Garde’ exhibition, China National Art Gallery, Beijing, 5 February 1989. ( Page 437 )
Born to two Socialist Realism painters shortly before China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Xiao was exposed to art and politics from a young age. She attended the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, with the work shown in this image serving as her graduation piece. A study of distance and alienation between the sexs, it consists of lifesize images of a woman and man in respective pooths with backs turned away from the viewer, and a phone, off its hook, on a plinth between them. The installation was then included in the landmark ‘China/Avant-Garde’ exhibition at China National Art Gallery in Beijing, 1989. On the opening day, Xiao shot the piece twice with a gun, which led to the Chinese authorities immediately closing the exhibit. She had stated that the piece related to her inability to communicate with her boyfriend at the time, though it was adopted as a symbol of the country’s simmering political unrest, which came to a head later that year. After a break from art that lasted until 2003, she returned to her practice, working in media of video, performance and installation and exploring themes related to personal identity, sexuality and relationship. ( Page 437）
Including Artists in this book:
Marina Abramovic; Anni Albers; Diane Arbus; Rose Bonheur; Cecily Brown; Sophie Calle; Julia Margaret Cameron; Leonora Carrington; Marry Cassatt; Judy Chicago; Sonia Delaunay; Tracey Emin; Helen Frankenthaler; Elisabeth Frink; Ellen Gallagher; Artemisia Gentileschi; Nan Goldin; Guerrilla Girls; Maggi Hambling; Harbara Hepworth; Eva Hesse; Susan Hiller; Nancy Holt; Jenny Holzer; Gwen John; Frida Kahlo; Angelica Kauffman; Mary Kelly; Lee Krasner; Barbara Kruger; Yayoi Kusama; Dorothea Lange; Annie Leibovitz; Tamara de Lempicka; Judith Leyster; Agnes Martin; Lee Miller; Louise Nevelson; Georgia O’keeffe; Yoko One; Adria Piper; Adrian Piper; Paula Rego; Bridger Riley; Niki de Saint Phalle; Cindy Sherman; Dorothea Tanning; Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun; Kara Walker; Rachel Whiteread; Andrea Zittel.
Chinese Artist include this book: Cao Wei（曹斐）、Hung Liu（刘虹）、Kan Xuna（阚萱）、XIAO Lu (肖鲁）、Xing Danwen（邢丹文）、Yin Xiuzhen（尹秀珍）。
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