| | Secret Signs Calligraphy in Chinese Contemporary Art by Dirk Luckow, Lesley Ma, Hu Mingyuan, Nora Von Achenbach, Uta Lauer, Alexandra Munroe, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Xu Bing, Feng Mengbo, Wu Shanzhuan, Ai Weiwei, Pi Li, Uli Sigg, Lauer Von Achenbach Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Snoeck ISBN-13: 978-3-86442-091-7, ISBN: 3-86442-091-1
"Secret Signs, an extensive group exhibition catalog, looks at the role of Chinese calligraphy in relation to contemporary Chinese art over the past three decades as a way of asking fundamental questions of art and art making in China today. In 1956 Mao ordered the radical simplification of the ancient complex calligraphic writing system used by the court by standardizing the characters and their sounds, reducing their form and number, c ..."
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