The Book about Xu Bing's Book from the Ground
Edited by Mathieu Borysevicz
Publisher: North Adams and Cambridge: Mass MoCA and The MIT Press, 2012
ISBN: 978-0262027427
Language: English
BANK/MABSOCIETY is honored to launch The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground, edited by Mathieu Borysevicz and published by MIT Press / Mass MoCA (English) and Guangxi Normal University Press (Chinese).
Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground is an extensive, seven-year, and still ongoing, project that explores the possibilities of universal communication via the language of icons. Book from the Ground culminated in 2010 with From Point to Point, a narrative novel composed entirely of icons, ideograms, and logos. The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground is a reader’s guide to this novel and presents archival material, interviews, texts, and translation of this momentous work. It provides individual insights from semioticians, authors, art critics, as well as the artist’s own words and background stories about Xu Bing’s breakthrough Book from the Ground.
