Book from the ground : from point to point

Author(s)

• 徐, 冰 ジョ, ヒョウ xu, bing

Bibliographic Information

Book from the ground : from point to point

by Xu Bing

MASS MoCA , MIT Press, c2013

Other Title

・→[man]→・

Dot, right arrow, man, right arrow, dot

Note

Title from back cover

On t.p. "[man]" appears as a pictogram in the form of a man

Text consists entirely of computer icons and other pictographic symbols

Summary: "Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct this narrative. The result is a readable story without words recording 24 hours in the day of the life of a typical urban white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual language, the text could be published anywhere without translation"

Details

• NCID: BB15918850
• ISBN:
  • 9780262027083
• LCCN: 2013944396
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: zxx
• Place of Publication: North Adams, Mass.,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 112 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : N7433.4.X8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Artists' books -- China
  • LCSH : Signs and symbols -- Miscellenea
  • LCSH : White collar workers -- Fiction