Yan Pei-Ming: Un Enterrement À Shanghai

By: Cars, Laurence des

An unprecedented artist's book whose pages can be assembled into one monumental painting: Yan Pei-Ming's homage to Courbet

The first place that the 21-year-old Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960) visited on a 1980 trip to France was Ornans, the birthplace of the French realist Gustave Courbet. Thirty-nine years later, Pei-Ming takes the 200th anniversary of the birth of his hero as an opportunity to demonstrate his immense admiration for Courbet and his masterpiece, Burial in Ornans.

Yan Pei-Ming transforms and translates this scene into a contemporary Burial in Shanghai, the city where he grew up, and where his mother is buried. This unique artist's book represents this undertaking in 290 divisible fragments. Pei-Ming intends that one can disassemble the book, assemble its fragments and form the painting in its original size, which is more than 20 feet wide and 10 feet high.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775746854
• ISBN13: 9783775746854
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 8.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 9.8" x 12.7"