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A Lexicon for Seeing the World: Xu Bing, Language, and Nature

Volume 17, Number 6, November/December 2018
by Maya Kóvskaya


Article Description

In this essay, Maya Kóvskaya explores Xu Bing's work by bringing up issues of how language, nature, and culture function in his projects and how he plays with the vulnerability of visual and textual language and its ability to reflect an understanding of our experience of the world.


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Xu Bing, Maya Kóvskaya, language, nature, semiotics, Book from the Sky, land script, The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll