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He is an internationally renowned art historian, a significant figure in the field of art research, and a leading contemporary art critic. Many of his perspectives on Western art, contemporary art, and Chinese painting and calligraphy are truly groundbreaking. To some extent, he can be said to have initiated the writing of Chinese art history, and he has been present at many key events in contemporary Chinese art. Furthermore, he is also a significant curator, having curated Mu Xin's first exhibition. It was also through his curatorial work that a group of Chinese painters in the 1980s established a "meeting" with Western academia and the public.
He was the scholar Wu Hung, of whom Mu Xin called him "Mr. Wu Hung, majestic and imposing, like a mighty warrior of ancient Rome."
This book is Wu Hung's first recollection of his 76-year personal history. He breaks away from the typical memoir style of writing, presenting readers neither the real past itself nor the complete fiction of a novel, but a creative reconstruction and imagination of experience, a more free and open "memory writing."
He uses a fantastical approach to depict the thrill and nightmare of encountering the flying apsaras in the Kizil Caves murals after escaping a desperate situation. With a calm and restrained tone, he explores the complex yet reverent connections between individuals, national treasures, cultural relics, and traditional culture through the theft and recovery of the Northern Dynasty "Cicada Crown Bodhisattva" statue. He recounts his teenage memories of life in the ancient city of Beijing, his voyeuristic pursuits of books, and his intimate, frustrating, and embarrassing personal stories with his nanny. Under a clear blue sky, by the purple-green shores of Lake Michigan, he reunites with himself, having regained his academic life after turbulent times, and reflects on the pursuit of scholarship above politics and personal independence among his teachers, friends, and acquaintances regardless of age.

2022-06-01

上海三联书店

Ideal Country

306

9787542677082