This fully illustrated catalogue chronicles avant-garde artist Wenda
Gu's creation of two installations, united nations: the green house
and united nations: united colors, commissioned by the Hood Museum of
Art, Dartmouth College, in partnership with the Dartmouth College
Library. Part of the artist's fourteen-year global conceptual human
hair sculpture series, the green house and united colors were made
from hair collected from the Dartmouth community, combined with
colored hair from other parts of the world. The essays and
photographs in the catalogue celebrate the profound scope of the
ongoing united nations series as well as the creation and production
of these two new works, from community hair collection to the works'
installation and the subsequent local, national, and critical
response. Along with Dartmouth's united nations projects, the Hood
Museum of Art premiered Wenda Gu's forest of stone steles:
retranslation and rewriting tang dynasty poetry, a series of large
books of rubbings from the artist's massive stone steles. An essay on
this installation, followed by a consideration of Wenda Gu's work
within the global conceptual art movement, completes the
volume.Catalogue contributors: Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director,
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; David Cateforis, Associate
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Kansas;
Eleanor Heartney, writer and Art in America critic; Allen Hockley,
Associate Professor of Asian Art, Dartmouth College; Brian Kennedy,
Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
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