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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Art and Ecology in Xu Bing’s <em>Forest Project</em>
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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Art and Ecology in Xu Bing’s Forest Project

Volume 15, Number 1, January/February 2016
by Pao-chen Tang


Article Description

In this essay, Pao-chen Tang reflects on Xu Bing's grappling with, and rethinking of, the function and purpose of contemporary art in relation to ecology and traditional Chinese visual culture through his Forest Project.


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Pao-chen Tang, Xu BIng, Forest Project, Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rare