House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective. (Catalog of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota Oct. 16, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006 and at the MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts Feb. 19, 2006-Jan. 8, 2007.)
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2005. 4to. 112 + 96 pp. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Yellow paper wraps with French folds. Color plates throughout.
ISBN: 0935640827 9780935640823.
Contents:
Two-minute wash cycle : Huang Yong Ping's Chinese period / Fei Dawei --
Change is the rule / Hou Honru --
Why am I afraid of Huang Yong Ping? / Philippe Vergne --
Writings by Huang Yong Ping --
1 Notebook 01, 1980-1989 --
2 Chance, 1985-1987 --
3 Xiamen Dada and Chan Buddhism, 1986-1988 --
4 Discourse-art-power, 1985-1999 --
5 Notes on augury, 1992-2003 --
Editor's afterword --
Huang Yong Ping: a lexicon / Doryun Chong --
Plates --
Four paintings created according to random instructions --
Wheel --
The beard was easiest to burn --
Ruben's lion bites Ruben's horse --
Mona-Vinci --
Dust --
The history of Chinese painting and the history of modern western art washed in the washing machine for two minutes --
Itchy on the front, numb on the back --
Kitchen --
Large turntable with four wheels --
Manuscript goes through the wall --
Trousers with firecrackers --
Selection from investigative forms --
Roulette wheel with six criteria --
Drawing away the national art gallery --
The house of oracles --
Face/brain --
The first phone call to Joseph Beuys after his death --
Preparatory drawing for large turntable with four wheels --
Untitled --
108 cards --
Theater of the world--bridge theater of the world --
Passage --
The wise man learns from the spider how to spin a web --
The pharmacy --
Da Xian--the doomsday --
Palaquin --
Globe --
Sixty-year cycle chariot --
Eight-legged hat --
Bank of sand, sand of bank --
Python --
Travel guide for 2000-2042 --
Bat project --
11 June 2002--the nightmare of George V --
Two typhoons --
Yong Ping--ping pong --
Amerigo Vespucci --
Long drawing of the bat project --
Three wings --
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