Ai Weiwei Memoir
He is joined by Debbie Millman, an author, educator, curator, and host of the podcast Design Matters. Ai Weiwei's steadfast devotion to free expression and resistance to the Chinese Communist Party's unrelenting pressures make this book glow as if irradiated with righteousness." —Orville Schell, The New York Review of Books "This memoir is a remarkable book—and an important one.. . . In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most celebrated poet. "With uncommon humanity, humbling scholarship, and poignant intimacy, Ai Weiwei recounts a life of) Ai Weiwei is probably China's most famous contemporary artist and activist. Ai Weiwei …He became 'a spike in the flesh' of the Chinese Communist party. This memoir is a remarkable book — and an important one. Growing up during the Cultural Revolution with his father a target of the Communist authorities helped turn Ai Weiwei into a staunch The memoirs of the artist branded a troublemaker by the Chinese regime are also a powerful tribute to his father. Artist's life in modern totalitarian China to be under the microscope in coming Ai Weiwei memoir Barr is the author of a study in Chinese of a literary inquisition in the early Qing dynasty, Jiangnan yijie: Qing ren bixia de Zhuangshi shi'an 江南一劫:清人笔下的庄氏史案, and the translator of several books by contemporary Chinese authors, including Yu Hua's. Ai Weiwei's memoir looks at the parallels between his life as an artist-activist in China and that of his father, Ai Qing, a poet imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE • In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most celebrated poet.
Before Ai Weiwei was a globe-trotting art star and notorious Chinese dissident, he was young and poor and lonely in New York. In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most celebrated poet."With uncommon humanity, humbling scholarship, and poignant intimacy, Ai Weiwei recounts a life. Barr) and frequent line drawings, Ai Weiwei, China's most. As a child, Ai watched his father suffer the humiliations and privations of political persecution. In the UK it will be published in hardback and digital formats by The Bodley Head, and an audio edition will be simultaneously released by Penguin Random House Audio. Ai's work is a remarkable testament to the eternal power of the simple, daring truth, underlining that an artist without the courage to speak it is merely a decorator—and a citizen without it is a subject."—Edward Snowden, author of Permanent Record "Ai Weiwei's intimate, unflinching memoir is an instant classic in the literature of. In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most celebrated poet. "With uncommon humanity, humbling scholarship, and poignant intimacy, Ai Weiwei recounts a life of) Ai Weiwei is probably China's most famous contemporary artist and activist. Artist's life in modern totalitarian China to be under the microscope in coming Ai Weiwei memoir Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most important living artists. In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most celebrated poet. "With uncommon humanity, humbling scholarship, and poignant.