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 The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, & Techniques (Art History Introduction, A Guide to Art) Paperback – Illustrated, May 2, 2017

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 The Short Story of Art is a pocket guide to key movements, works, themes and techniques – a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to Damien Hirst installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques.

 The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. Accessible and concise, it simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are connected. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic jargon, giving readers a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of art.

 'Susie Hodge has culled through hundreds of art movements to highlight and present 36 that illustrate transitions of art, its ideas, representations, characteristics, and production from Prehistoric times up to the dynamic shifts of the 1960s and '70s. As complex as art history is, this book is a welcome, succinct introduction to some classic Western masters.'
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 'Excellent introduction to the subject. A good quality book, tightly bound, and well illustrated.'
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 ' The Short Story of Art is an attractive volume that serves as a convenient introduction to major movements, works, themes, and techniques of Western art. The works within are featured more for their seminal or illustrative nature than their fame per se, so the "story" part of the title is apt. The cross referencing and "Other works by…" sections makes it clear that this book is encouraging the reader to explore art on his own.'
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 * Publisher ‏ : ‎ Laurence King Publishing; Illustrated edition (May 2, 2017)
 * Language ‏ : ‎ English
 * Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
 * ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780679688
 * ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780679686
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 Susie Hodge MA FRSA is a British author, artist and art historian. She writes books, articles and web resources on a range of related subjects. Several of her books are bestsellers and several have won awards and prizes. She often appears in documentaries, arts programmes and news channels, and she gives talks, lectures and workshops to many different audiences all over the world. She also paints, has two grown up children - and four cats!

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 The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, & Techniques (Art History Introduction, A Guide to Art) Paperback – Illustrated, May 2, 2017
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 The Short Story of Art is a pocket guide to key movements, works, themes and techniques – a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to Damien Hirst installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques.
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 'Susie Hodge has culled through hundreds of art movements to highlight and present 36 that illustrate transitions of art, its ideas, representations, characteristics, and production from Prehistoric times up to the dynamic shifts of the 1960s and '70s. As complex as art history is, this book is a welcome, succinct introduction to some classic Western masters.'
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  I bought this book to get a basic idea of art history before I take the class next year and I loved it! It's actually very interesting and it gives the important details of all of the movements and techniques and works but doesn't go into so much depth that it gets boring. I wouldn't recommend for someone looking for a textbook but for for everone else, definitely!
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  This is an excellent yet detailed summary of the major movements and techniques of art history, accompanied by beautiful glossy representative illustrations. Don't go to a major museum without it!
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  Highly recommend for an easy pocket guide to chronological movements. However, it does offer summarize bite size insights. Don't expect to dive as deep as purchasing a movement or artist specific book.
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 The mythological figure of Medusa, the Gorgon with writhing snakes for hair whose very sight turned the unwary to stone, has been used in everything from poetry to sculpture and painting, from Star Trek episodes and designations for psychoanalytical syndromes to the logo of a modern fashion designer. In their introduction, editors Garber (English, Harvard) and Vickers (president of Bryn Mawr) touch on the parallel strands of the Medusa legend: beauty and ugliness, feminism and misogyny, and fascination and terror. Because all of the elements of these paradoxes are present in any use of the story, this reader is organized chronologically rather than thematically, though the bibliography is divided to provide for such searching and the index is cross-referenced as well. A valuable addition to all mythology and folklore collections and even art collections, this is recommended for public and academic libraries as well as secondary-level school libraries. Katherine K. Koenig, Ellis Sch., Pittsburgh
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  Thank the gods I found this book! It's the perfect reference book for my purpose. I am particularly grateful for the upfront list of citations and photographs. I appreciated the ancient mingling with the pop - each offering a different glimpse of Medusa. I had not heard of the Culture Work series before - I shall look to it hereafter. Thank you again. My study and future performance of Medusa will be well informed by your effort.
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  Please buy this book if you want to learn everything about Medusa while breaking free of the stereotypical version of her. This book will show you many interpretations of Medusa, and you have to decide if she fits and what she means to you.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars A great academic resource as well as very readable
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  For anyone who needs a compendium of Medusa references in cultural history, ranging from mythology and religion to psychology and art, this book is a great resource for scholars and lay readers alike. With chapters by eminent academics and subjects ranging from art history (e.g., Caravaggio) to literature (e.g., Dante), and readings encompassing millennia of contexts, this book is top tier and scintillating. The bibliography is also thorough and comprehensive. I will use THE MEDUSA READER as an assigned reference text in my next collegiate/university course on mythology.
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  I adore this book. I've scoured the net for quotes, articles, references, anything I can find on Medusa and the Medusa Reader encompasses virtually all of it. The psychology, symbolism, poetry, stories, interpretations, pop culture, history... you name it. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone interested in my favorite legend.
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  This is a seminal book about the History of the World we live in and I believe copies of it should be in every classroom in every school. If reading is not your thing, try it on Audible
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  4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but no mention of Nelson Mandela
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  I bought this book for my 9th and 10th grade history class. My students seemed to enjoy Marr's writing style. He has a talent for writing historical narrative without overloading the reader with facts and statistics. In terms of his approach to writing history, Marr explicitly states that he "concentrated on the biggest change-makers" and their social impact on the world. I was disappointed to see that of his select number of great change-makers covered, he did not mention Nelson Mandela--which explains my 4 out of 5 star rating. Marr's most interesting sub-chapters is "The Mystery or Imperialism" and "Leopold the Nasty," in which he discusses why modern imperialism starts in Europe and how the "Scramble for Africa" resulted from centuries of internal European rivalries. Marr does a great job elucidating the moral dilemmas of missionaries and delusions of capitalists involved in the destruction of Africa and the Congo, more specifically. His last sub-chapter "A Fair Field Full of Folk" was not as interesting, in which he attempts to cover global problems like overpopulation and climate change in the last seven pages of the book. I felt like he was tacking on everything he could think of that was left out of the book. To be fair, Marr's does make an effort to point out the risks of overpopulation and climate change throughout the text. Otherwise, he does some justice to covering racial and gender issues in history and is brutally honest about how such topics have been marginalized in history books, mainly by old white men. Overall, as a reader, I liked the book and his straight-to-the-point writing style. As a teacher, I would recommend assigning certain sections of the text to students to begin class discussion since the book is an easy read and his wit is sure to keep students' attention.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars A good overall view of world history that is interesting
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  This may be the best world history book that I have read although I have not always enjoyed everything that Mr. Marr has produced. It explains a lot to me that have just been murky questions in my mind. Yes, I know that some of this information may not be the total fact of the matter(is any history book?) but it is his studied conception and certainly better than many. I enjoyed the fact that it was not just battle after battle and war after war. I have looked for history information that gives us knowledge of the many developments that have happened...not just war. Sure, no book is going to do that 100%. but at least this book tried to balance that in to its content. Remembering my school days, I now wish that a book like this had been available....because what was available was boring and just a small percentage of the real history. Mr. Marr does give opinions on peoples personalities and abilities...but if you don't agree with him, you may look up further information to form your own opinion.

  If anyone can come up with another book, another world history that is as interesting and as balanced as this book....I would like to see your suggestions....Keep in mind that I don't want to go through every detail. A book of this size cannot have every detail.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars World history book that actually covers the world, unlike other "world" history books that focus primarily on Europe and the US
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  I was trying to find a medium-length world history book that really covered the world's history. This isn't easy, as most tend to focus primarily on European history. This book had relatively few reviews on Amazon, so I decided to keep looking rather than buy this when I first saw it. I ended up looking on the UK Amazon website, thinking that I may find a book there that wasn't available in the US. On the UK website, this book had many reviews, and they were very high. Based on this, I downloaded to my Kindle from the US website. The book is engaging. It doesn't cover any period as much as I'd like it to, but this is expected of a medium-length book that covers 10,000 years of history. It does however provide enough history for each period to help the reader determine what s/he would like to read about in greater detail, and then buy the relevant book for that period.
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  4.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed reading this book
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  This is my first non-academic world history read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Marr weaves together different countries, cultures and their leaders smoothly page after page, often with a unifying theme in mind. Sometimes one can catch a bit of fluffy rhetoric but this does not detract from the experience even if the reader is only trying to gain new knowledge. The book is easy to read yet filled with detail. Marr definitely leans towards writing about new cultures and peoples or towards existing history with new historical information. I felt the book to be a bit short even though it's over 500 pages; there was certainly a huge skipping of historical events but Marr himself addresses this in the beginning of the book as inevitable of anyone trying to tackle a subject so daunting as world history. But Marr (or his editor) got it right when he named the book simply "A" history of the world (not "The") because it is merely one of many world history books that should be read for anyone serious enough about understanding the subject.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent world history
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  This is a really good history book. I first bought the BBC DVD series the book supports, but decided I needed more detail so I got the book. I read the book chapters before watching the episodes. This was a good way for me to really learn and remember.

  Throughout the book, Marr has a clear tone and avoids heavy analysis. However, in the final chapter I felt that there was a bit of political bias when explaining recent history. It may be unavoidable, and did not really detract from the book (it just was obvious since it was very different from the rest of the book).

  I am amazed at how much info can be crammed into a single book. I wanted to read this book in order to get an "overall picture" before I move on to more specific events and periods, and it has really served that purpose.

  Highly recommended.
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  A book that is exhaustive and yet not soporific. My perspective of history changed after this book.
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  I've never payed attention to history classes in my school days. But now, I was looking for enlightment on how the hell we got here? Why humans can't live in peace on a world where we have got enough of everything for everybody. I needed a global vision of the world and his history. This book provides just that. A global.vision of the world since the beginning to our days. Now everything becomes clear to my mind when a read a newspaper. This book gave me the first and only history class I've ever needed. It should be mandatory in hi-school education. So much to learn and so well written and explained.
  If you take Ernst History of the world as a children introduction to history, this one would be the same kind of book for young adults.
  It's maybe not a book for history lovers, but for history newcomers. It opens all the doors. There are now so many books from the references I want to read! To put it on a single line. This book made me fall in love with the history. Give it a chance, it's like game of thrones without the dragons. ;-)
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  A brilliant work of breathtaking scope, effortlessly traversing centuries and continents. It is so vastly informative, breezily written and entertaining that my interest never flagged.
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  This is the worst book I have read,. This is not a history book but a brilliant "essay" written by someone (Andrew Marr) who has been to Oxford University and is particularly good as a presenter or political commentator on BBC. He mentions lots of historical events without explaining them which means that if you are not a historian you get confused. It seems that Andrew Marr, through this structurally confusing book, just wants to entertain an audience with prose (which he could achieve at a dining table) but not to provide a comprehensive narration of world history.
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 Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey, political journalist Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today’s superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs.
 A History of the World is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For ‘the better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.’
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 * Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; Main Market edition (September 27, 2012)
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 * File size ‏ : ‎ 10400 KB
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  I bought this book for my 9th and 10th grade history class. My students seemed to enjoy Marr's writing style. He has a talent for writing historical narrative without overloading the reader with facts and statistics. In terms of his approach to writing history, Marr explicitly states that he "concentrated on the biggest change-makers" and their social impact on the world. I was disappointed to see that of his select number of great change-makers covered, he did not mention Nelson Mandela--which explains my 4 out of 5 star rating. Marr's most interesting sub-chapters is "The Mystery or Imperialism" and "Leopold the Nasty," in which he discusses why modern imperialism starts in Europe and how the "Scramble for Africa" resulted from centuries of internal European rivalries. Marr does a great job elucidating the moral dilemmas of missionaries and delusions of capitalists involved in the destruction of Africa and the Congo, more specifically. His last sub-chapter "A Fair Field Full of Folk" was not as interesting, in which he attempts to cover global problems like overpopulation and climate change in the last seven pages of the book. I felt like he was tacking on everything he could think of that was left out of the book. To be fair, Marr's does make an effort to point out the risks of overpopulation and climate change throughout the text. Otherwise, he does some justice to covering racial and gender issues in history and is brutally honest about how such topics have been marginalized in history books, mainly by old white men. Overall, as a reader, I liked the book and his straight-to-the-point writing style. As a teacher, I would recommend assigning certain sections of the text to students to begin class discussion since the book is an easy read and his wit is sure to keep students' attention.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars A good overall view of world history that is interesting
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  This may be the best world history book that I have read although I have not always enjoyed everything that Mr. Marr has produced. It explains a lot to me that have just been murky questions in my mind. Yes, I know that some of this information may not be the total fact of the matter(is any history book?) but it is his studied conception and certainly better than many. I enjoyed the fact that it was not just battle after battle and war after war. I have looked for history information that gives us knowledge of the many developments that have happened...not just war. Sure, no book is going to do that 100%. but at least this book tried to balance that in to its content. Remembering my school days, I now wish that a book like this had been available....because what was available was boring and just a small percentage of the real history. Mr. Marr does give opinions on peoples personalities and abilities...but if you don't agree with him, you may look up further information to form your own opinion.
  If anyone can come up with another book, another world history that is as interesting and as balanced as this book....I would like to see your suggestions....Keep in mind that I don't want to go through every detail. A book of this size cannot have every detail.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars World history book that actually covers the world, unlike other "world" history books that focus primarily on Europe and the US
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  I was trying to find a medium-length world history book that really covered the world's history. This isn't easy, as most tend to focus primarily on European history. This book had relatively few reviews on Amazon, so I decided to keep looking rather than buy this when I first saw it. I ended up looking on the UK Amazon website, thinking that I may find a book there that wasn't available in the US. On the UK website, this book had many reviews, and they were very high. Based on this, I downloaded to my Kindle from the US website. The book is engaging. It doesn't cover any period as much as I'd like it to, but this is expected of a medium-length book that covers 10,000 years of history. It does however provide enough history for each period to help the reader determine what s/he would like to read about in greater detail, and then buy the relevant book for that period.
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  4.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed reading this book
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  This is my first non-academic world history read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Marr weaves together different countries, cultures and their leaders smoothly page after page, often with a unifying theme in mind. Sometimes one can catch a bit of fluffy rhetoric but this does not detract from the experience even if the reader is only trying to gain new knowledge. The book is easy to read yet filled with detail. Marr definitely leans towards writing about new cultures and peoples or towards existing history with new historical information. I felt the book to be a bit short even though it's over 500 pages; there was certainly a huge skipping of historical events but Marr himself addresses this in the beginning of the book as inevitable of anyone trying to tackle a subject so daunting as world history. But Marr (or his editor) got it right when he named the book simply "A" history of the world (not "The") because it is merely one of many world history books that should be read for anyone serious enough about understanding the subject.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent world history
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  This is a really good history book. I first bought the BBC DVD series the book supports, but decided I needed more detail so I got the book. I read the book chapters before watching the episodes. This was a good way for me to really learn and remember.
  Throughout the book, Marr has a clear tone and avoids heavy analysis. However, in the final chapter I felt that there was a bit of political bias when explaining recent history. It may be unavoidable, and did not really detract from the book (it just was obvious since it was very different from the rest of the book).
  I am amazed at how much info can be crammed into a single book. I wanted to read this book in order to get an "overall picture" before I move on to more specific events and periods, and it has really served that purpose.
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  A book that is exhaustive and yet not soporific. My perspective of history changed after this book.
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  I've never payed attention to history classes in my school days. But now, I was looking for enlightment on how the hell we got here? Why humans can't live in peace on a world where we have got enough of everything for everybody. I needed a global vision of the world and his history. This book provides just that. A global.vision of the world since the beginning to our days. Now everything becomes clear to my mind when a read a newspaper. This book gave me the first and only history class I've ever needed. It should be mandatory in hi-school education. So much to learn and so well written and explained.
  If you take Ernst History of the world as a children introduction to history, this one would be the same kind of book for young adults.
  It's maybe not a book for history lovers, but for history newcomers. It opens all the doors. There are now so many books from the references I want to read! To put it on a single line. This book made me fall in love with the history. Give it a chance, it's like game of thrones without the dragons. ;-)
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  A brilliant work of breathtaking scope, effortlessly traversing centuries and continents. It is so vastly informative, breezily written and entertaining that my interest never flagged.
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  This is the worst book I have read,. This is not a history book but a brilliant "essay" written by someone (Andrew Marr) who has been to Oxford University and is particularly good as a presenter or political commentator on BBC. He mentions lots of historical events without explaining them which means that if you are not a historian you get confused. It seems that Andrew Marr, through this structurally confusing book, just wants to entertain an audience with prose (which he could achieve at a dining table) but not to provide a comprehensive narration of world history.
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  Simplicity is king! I tend to be a fan of the work in progress in several projects. As an artist myself, its great reference, noticing the simple building designs and breaking things down on in shapes. Its a reminder to not be so hard on Yourself and to create within your ability and know how. This book doesn't promote that but it very inspiring. I know many artists out there can use the motivation!
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  5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of beautiful R&D sketches during the development of Apex Legends
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  This book is just so cool. There is alot of art to look at and appreciate. It was really neat seeing the development of characters, maps, weapons, and so on. Most pages have a short snippet talking about the development of certain aspects which really let you get behind the curtains of what developers were thinking. As a huge fan of Apex Legends I am so proud of the game and how far its come along. Its awesome seeing how much emotion, energy, and care was put into the game by the studio. Outstanding work
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  Got this for my coworker who loves Apex Legends. Solid book, came shrink-wrapped and in a padded envelope. And he absolutely loved it 😊
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  5.0 out of 5 stars Great APEX art
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  I’m a fan of concept and guide art. No need to surf the internet for official, original APEX art: most of what you want is right here. (I only say most because the game has been updated since.). Nice solid book, too.
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  And speaking of the book, I loved it but something was missing
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  For the hardcore apex fan I recommend even though they need to make an updated one with new characters and weapons
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  I love apex so when I heard this was coming out I had to get it and I love looking at all the interesting things in this book!!
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  Buen libro de arte, solía jugar Apex legends, ya no lo juego, pero quedé enamorado del diseño de personajes y en este libro de arte incluye varios personajes con los que me quedé cuando lo jugaba, incluye algunos bocetos de como iban a ser nuestros personajes favoritos, varias de sus skins legendarias, incluye también el armamento y escenarios del juego.

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 Have you ever...

 * Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
 * Paid too much in an eBay auction?
 * Continued to do something you knew was bad for you?
 * Sold stocks too late, or too early?
 * Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
 * Backed the wrong horse?

 These are examples of what the author calls cognitive biases, simple errors all of us make in day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to identify them, we can avoid them and make better choices: Whether in dealing with personal problems or business negotiations, trying to save money or earn profits, or merely working out what we really want in life - and strategizing the best way to get it.

 Already an international bestseller, The Art of Thinking Clearly distills cutting-edge research from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience into a clever, practical guide for anyone who's ever wanted to be wiser and make better decisions. A novelist, thinker, and entrepreneur, Rolf Dobelli deftly shows that in order to lead happier, more prosperous lives, we don't need extra cunning, new ideas, shiny gadgets, or more frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.

 Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable audiobook will change the way you think and transform your decision making - at work, at home, every day. From why you shouldn't accept a free drink to why you should walk out of a movie you don't like, from why it's so hard to predict the future to why you shouldn't watch the news, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.

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  5.0 out of 5 stars Very enlightening
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  This book is quite enlightening.
  Some areas are easier to grasp than others. Nonetheless, that appeals to me.
  A part of the enjoyment of reading is challenging our thinking and perception of things.
  As a result we continue to grow.
  Give this book a try, you might learn something that will be to your advantage.
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  Enjoyed the book and recommend it . Made difficult concepts easier to grasp. Funny. Good for people with modest attention spans.
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  4.0 out of 5 stars including the highly intelligent, resulting in everyone falling into the same cognitive ...
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  In the 1960s psychologists began to examine scientifically, how people think, decide and take action. The result, explains the author of this book, Rolf Dobelli, was a “theory of irrationality that states: thinking is in itself not pure, but prone to error.” This, they found, was true of all people, including the highly intelligent, resulting in everyone falling into the same cognitive errors.
  More interestingly, it appears we all “systematically err in the same direction.” If this is indeed true, it means we all make predictable mistakes. If it is true, and it appears to be, we should be able to fix at least some of them and avoid making these errors in our lives.
  Dobelli has gathered 99 errors common to us all. He provides short, amusing and pithy insights into their form and causes. This has not made his life error free, he reports. However, “to make things simple, I have set myself the following rules: in situations where the possible consequences are large, I try to be as reasonable and rational as possible when choosing… In situations where the consequences are small I forget about rational optimisation and let my intuition take over.”
  This book is a useful compendium of error. Reading this book will certainly increase one’s awareness of possible errors, which will lead to better decisions. To illustrate, I have chosen five errors of the Dobelli’s 99.
  Social Proof
  You are roaming the Serengeti some 50,000 years ago, and your hunter-gather companions suddenly break into a desperate run away from some disturbance. What should you do? Mindlessly follow, or consider the possibility that it is a gazelle rather than a predator. Having seen a thoughtful companion become some animal’s lunch you run with the crowd.
  “Social proof” is the legacy of this herd instinct that dictates that individuals are behaving correctly when they act the same as other people. Social proof is behind stock market bubbles, as well as stock market stampedes. It is no different in the worlds of fashion, management techniques, and diets.
  Social proof informs even simple decision such as selecting a restaurant in an area with which you are unfamiliar. It seems sensible to choose the one that is full over a poorly patronised one.
  Novelist W. Somerset Maugham put the error of social proof succinctly: ‘If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.’
  Sunk Cost Fallacy
  The film was awful. After an hour, Dobelli whispered to his wife: ‘Come on, let’s go home.’ She replied : ‘No way. We’re not throwing away $ 30.’ The $ 30 is not reason to stay, that would be a thinking error. The money was been spent, and will not be returned. This is an example of the sunk cost error.
  So often in business, there is the sense that having invested so much, it would be wrong to stop now. Stopping now, makes the investment seem a mistake. The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested time, money, energy, commitment or love in something.
  The need for consistency drives this type of irrational behaviour. Deciding to cancel the project before it is completed is to admit that we had made a mistake.
  Sometimes the consequences of this thinking error costs lives as when America extended their involvement in the Vietnam War. Their thinking: ‘We’ve already sacrificed so much for this war; it would be a mistake to give up now.’
  Reciprocity
  Psychologist Robert Cialdini has studied the phenomenon of reciprocity and concluded that people have discomfort feeling they are indebted to another person.
  Dobelli offers this example: “A supplier of screws invites a potential customer to join him at a big sports game. A month later, it’s time to order screws. The desire not to be in debt is so strong that the buyer gives in and places an order with his new friend.”
  This phenomenon has a long history. When primitive man’s food supplies were subject to high fluctuations, he needed others to share their food with him. When he killed an animal too large to eat in one day, he would share the meat with others in his group. Doing this would ensure that they share their meat with him when he is short.
  When approached in the supermarket, with an offer of a taste of wine, a chunk of cheese or a handful of olives, Dobelli advises to refuse the offer. The error of reciprocity has led many to ending up a pantry full of goods they do not even like.
  Contrast Effect
  We judge something to be beautiful, expensive or large only if we have something ugly, cheap or small to compare it to.
  Experiments indicate that people will walk an extra ten minutes to save $ 10 on food. The same people, however would not walk ten minutes to save $ 10 on a $ 1,000 suit. The whole category of discount business is only viable because of this error, Dobelli claims.
  In the investment arena, the error leads people to believe a share is good value because it is 50% below the peak price. The share price is what it is, and comparison is irrelevant. All that matters is whether the share goes up or down in the future.
  The contrast effect also plays out in the social arena. If you are dating it is not prudent to double date with your supermodel friend. This makes you appear less attractive than you really are!
  Chauffeur Knowledge
  According to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, there are two types of knowledge. “Real knowledge” is what people have when they have invested time and effort to understanding a topic. “Chauffeur knowledge” is the result of learning how to put on a show. Warren Buffett uses the phrase, ‘circle of competence’ to avoid this error. ‘You have to stick within what I call your circle of competence. You have to know what you understand and what you don’t understand. It’s not terribly important how big the circle is. But it is terribly important that you know where the perimeter is.’
  It is so easy to not confuse the company spokesperson, the newscaster, and the cliché generator with those who possess true knowledge. You can recognize the difference because the true experts know what they know and what they do not know.
  This book is a “must read!” We cannot do enough to protect ourselves from our thinking errors and the author sites 99 such errors. Much of the material in this book can be found scattered elsewhere. The value of this book is that the information is in one place.
  Readability Light --+-- Serious
  Insights High --+-- Low
  Practical High --+-- Low

  *Ian Mann of Gateways consults internationally on leadership and strategy and is the author of Strategy that Works.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars Comparing to Wiki's Cognitive Bias List?
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  Many know that Wikipedia has a "mistake" list of potential cognitive errors and biases that links to nearly infinite mistakes these poor brains can make! This is like the little book of 100 things that can go right vs. the 2,000 page book of clinical maladies that can descend upon us each unsuspecting day.

  This read is truly an eye-opening joy ride! Even though the author claims happiness is genetic and not to expect too much, hey, get this, it's enlightening AND entertaining! How is it better than the plethora of error books and self help sites out there, as well as Wiki's extensive list? Wow, no comparison. Dobelli uses short, punchy "chapters" that are almost just a few paragraphs to explain, define, exemplify and illustrate each cognitive trap, error and bias-- astonishing. The humor is dry but everywhere, especially his many "aha" insights about how these errors helped us keep from being killed as cave folk but do us disservice now. He wryly shares that the guy who questioned the herd mentality probably didn't contribute to the gene pool if he did so while all his buddies were running from a lion! This author's sense of humor is too contagious.

  As you get through the first few "chapters" your mind will be reeling with the insights-- they really are more subtle than the fun tone suggests at first. Then, you look at the 300 pages that remain and realize how PACKED this book is with eye opening insights-- wow. This is one of those rare books after which you never look at the world, your life, or your relationships the same, EVER again!

  Even if you've studied these mistakes and biases for years, or are an expert in the field (an "authority?" oh, oh), Rolf's "multiple angle" style of illustration, story telling, examples, descriptions and taxonomy really drives the trap home in deeply understandable, gut ways you might not have experienced with other authors. A dry topic like exit barriers is generalized with an error about sunk costs, and examples given for everything from relationships to habits, never mind investments! Though he is a friend of Taleb's, don't believe the hype that this is a "business" or investing book-- its examples and applications range much farther than that universe, down to our daily unconscious choices and patterns.

  Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys seemingly light page turners that turn out to be much deeper and life changing. NOT a self help tome, in fact he makes great fun of self helpers, showing them the covariate mirror where they ignored their own genetics and luck to get there, having nothing to do at all with the "techniques" they are now espousing and promoting. Best of all, this is a guy who continually makes fun of himself and tells many stories about his own "stupidity" -- subtly teaching us he's caught on to the subtlest trickster of all-- ego.

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  I don’t usually write reviews with such an exaggerated title, but I would give this book 10 stars if I could. Easy to read, captivating, and potentially life-changing. Understand yourself and think your way to a brighter future.
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 Have you ever...
 * Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
 * Paid too much in an eBay auction?
 * Continued to do something you knew was bad for you?
 * Sold stocks too late, or too early?
 * Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
 * Backed the wrong horse?
 These are examples of what the author calls cognitive biases, simple errors all of us make in day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to identify them, we can avoid them and make better choices: Whether in dealing with personal problems or business negotiations, trying to save money or earn profits, or merely working out what we really want in life - and strategizing the best way to get it.
 Already an international bestseller, The Art of Thinking Clearly distills cutting-edge research from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience into a clever, practical guide for anyone who's ever wanted to be wiser and make better decisions. A novelist, thinker, and entrepreneur, Rolf Dobelli deftly shows that in order to lead happier, more prosperous lives, we don't need extra cunning, new ideas, shiny gadgets, or more frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.
 Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable audiobook will change the way you think and transform your decision making - at work, at home, every day. From why you shouldn't accept a free drink to why you should walk out of a movie you don't like, from why it's so hard to predict the future to why you shouldn't watch the news, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.
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  This book is quite enlightening.
  Some areas are easier to grasp than others. Nonetheless, that appeals to me.
  A part of the enjoyment of reading is challenging our thinking and perception of things.
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  Enjoyed the book and recommend it . Made difficult concepts easier to grasp. Funny. Good for people with modest attention spans.
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  4.0 out of 5 stars including the highly intelligent, resulting in everyone falling into the same cognitive ...
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  In the 1960s psychologists began to examine scientifically, how people think, decide and take action. The result, explains the author of this book, Rolf Dobelli, was a “theory of irrationality that states: thinking is in itself not pure, but prone to error.” This, they found, was true of all people, including the highly intelligent, resulting in everyone falling into the same cognitive errors.
  More interestingly, it appears we all “systematically err in the same direction.” If this is indeed true, it means we all make predictable mistakes. If it is true, and it appears to be, we should be able to fix at least some of them and avoid making these errors in our lives.
  Dobelli has gathered 99 errors common to us all. He provides short, amusing and pithy insights into their form and causes. This has not made his life error free, he reports. However, “to make things simple, I have set myself the following rules: in situations where the possible consequences are large, I try to be as reasonable and rational as possible when choosing… In situations where the consequences are small I forget about rational optimisation and let my intuition take over.”
  This book is a useful compendium of error. Reading this book will certainly increase one’s awareness of possible errors, which will lead to better decisions. To illustrate, I have chosen five errors of the Dobelli’s 99.
  Social Proof
  You are roaming the Serengeti some 50,000 years ago, and your hunter-gather companions suddenly break into a desperate run away from some disturbance. What should you do? Mindlessly follow, or consider the possibility that it is a gazelle rather than a predator. Having seen a thoughtful companion become some animal’s lunch you run with the crowd.
  “Social proof” is the legacy of this herd instinct that dictates that individuals are behaving correctly when they act the same as other people. Social proof is behind stock market bubbles, as well as stock market stampedes. It is no different in the worlds of fashion, management techniques, and diets.
  Social proof informs even simple decision such as selecting a restaurant in an area with which you are unfamiliar. It seems sensible to choose the one that is full over a poorly patronised one.
  Novelist W. Somerset Maugham put the error of social proof succinctly: ‘If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.’
  Sunk Cost Fallacy
  The film was awful. After an hour, Dobelli whispered to his wife: ‘Come on, let’s go home.’ She replied : ‘No way. We’re not throwing away $ 30.’ The $ 30 is not reason to stay, that would be a thinking error. The money was been spent, and will not be returned. This is an example of the sunk cost error.
  So often in business, there is the sense that having invested so much, it would be wrong to stop now. Stopping now, makes the investment seem a mistake. The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested time, money, energy, commitment or love in something.
  The need for consistency drives this type of irrational behaviour. Deciding to cancel the project before it is completed is to admit that we had made a mistake.
  Sometimes the consequences of this thinking error costs lives as when America extended their involvement in the Vietnam War. Their thinking: ‘We’ve already sacrificed so much for this war; it would be a mistake to give up now.’
  Reciprocity
  Psychologist Robert Cialdini has studied the phenomenon of reciprocity and concluded that people have discomfort feeling they are indebted to another person.
  Dobelli offers this example: “A supplier of screws invites a potential customer to join him at a big sports game. A month later, it’s time to order screws. The desire not to be in debt is so strong that the buyer gives in and places an order with his new friend.”
  This phenomenon has a long history. When primitive man’s food supplies were subject to high fluctuations, he needed others to share their food with him. When he killed an animal too large to eat in one day, he would share the meat with others in his group. Doing this would ensure that they share their meat with him when he is short.
  When approached in the supermarket, with an offer of a taste of wine, a chunk of cheese or a handful of olives, Dobelli advises to refuse the offer. The error of reciprocity has led many to ending up a pantry full of goods they do not even like.
  Contrast Effect
  We judge something to be beautiful, expensive or large only if we have something ugly, cheap or small to compare it to.
  Experiments indicate that people will walk an extra ten minutes to save $ 10 on food. The same people, however would not walk ten minutes to save $ 10 on a $ 1,000 suit. The whole category of discount business is only viable because of this error, Dobelli claims.
  In the investment arena, the error leads people to believe a share is good value because it is 50% below the peak price. The share price is what it is, and comparison is irrelevant. All that matters is whether the share goes up or down in the future.
  The contrast effect also plays out in the social arena. If you are dating it is not prudent to double date with your supermodel friend. This makes you appear less attractive than you really are!
  Chauffeur Knowledge
  According to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, there are two types of knowledge. “Real knowledge” is what people have when they have invested time and effort to understanding a topic. “Chauffeur knowledge” is the result of learning how to put on a show. Warren Buffett uses the phrase, ‘circle of competence’ to avoid this error. ‘You have to stick within what I call your circle of competence. You have to know what you understand and what you don’t understand. It’s not terribly important how big the circle is. But it is terribly important that you know where the perimeter is.’
  It is so easy to not confuse the company spokesperson, the newscaster, and the cliché generator with those who possess true knowledge. You can recognize the difference because the true experts know what they know and what they do not know.
  This book is a “must read!” We cannot do enough to protect ourselves from our thinking errors and the author sites 99 such errors. Much of the material in this book can be found scattered elsewhere. The value of this book is that the information is in one place.
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  *Ian Mann of Gateways consults internationally on leadership and strategy and is the author of Strategy that Works.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars Comparing to Wiki's Cognitive Bias List?
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  Many know that Wikipedia has a "mistake" list of potential cognitive errors and biases that links to nearly infinite mistakes these poor brains can make! This is like the little book of 100 things that can go right vs. the 2,000 page book of clinical maladies that can descend upon us each unsuspecting day.
  This read is truly an eye-opening joy ride! Even though the author claims happiness is genetic and not to expect too much, hey, get this, it's enlightening AND entertaining! How is it better than the plethora of error books and self help sites out there, as well as Wiki's extensive list? Wow, no comparison. Dobelli uses short, punchy "chapters" that are almost just a few paragraphs to explain, define, exemplify and illustrate each cognitive trap, error and bias-- astonishing. The humor is dry but everywhere, especially his many "aha" insights about how these errors helped us keep from being killed as cave folk but do us disservice now. He wryly shares that the guy who questioned the herd mentality probably didn't contribute to the gene pool if he did so while all his buddies were running from a lion! This author's sense of humor is too contagious.
  As you get through the first few "chapters" your mind will be reeling with the insights-- they really are more subtle than the fun tone suggests at first. Then, you look at the 300 pages that remain and realize how PACKED this book is with eye opening insights-- wow. This is one of those rare books after which you never look at the world, your life, or your relationships the same, EVER again!
  Even if you've studied these mistakes and biases for years, or are an expert in the field (an "authority?" oh, oh), Rolf's "multiple angle" style of illustration, story telling, examples, descriptions and taxonomy really drives the trap home in deeply understandable, gut ways you might not have experienced with other authors. A dry topic like exit barriers is generalized with an error about sunk costs, and examples given for everything from relationships to habits, never mind investments! Though he is a friend of Taleb's, don't believe the hype that this is a "business" or investing book-- its examples and applications range much farther than that universe, down to our daily unconscious choices and patterns.
  Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys seemingly light page turners that turn out to be much deeper and life changing. NOT a self help tome, in fact he makes great fun of self helpers, showing them the covariate mirror where they ignored their own genetics and luck to get there, having nothing to do at all with the "techniques" they are now espousing and promoting. Best of all, this is a guy who continually makes fun of himself and tells many stories about his own "stupidity" -- subtly teaching us he's caught on to the subtlest trickster of all-- ego.
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  I'm so happy that I finally got my art of goosebumps from yesterday from Amazon then the first time I ordered it with the third party thing and USPS loss the package . I recommend buy this book for kids or goosebumps fan I really like it thank you Amazon and the drivers.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars This one is a must for Goosebumps fans!
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  Great book if you’re a goosebumps fan! Stories behind the artwork and the renderings leading up to the final selection for the cover are interesting too. This book was a little pricey but it was definitely worth it. The pages are nicely organized and the pages are great quality.
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  5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
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  Great book! Super high quality printing of the finished covers, along with the initial sketches, occasional reference photos taken to work from, and lots of interesting tidbits of info. Definitely recommend!
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  5.0 out of 5 stars This is awesome!
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  Stories and tons of artwork. Sketches to the first color and final print. With a back story on each cover. What is not to love about this book? It's amazing.
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  4.0 out of 5 stars High quality Images of *Most* Goosebumps books
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  Its a self explanatory book, its high quality images of most goosebumps covers. I say most because the art is all focused on the main artist, Tim Jacobus. He didn't do 2 covers in the original line, and they didn't include those covers on the big pages, just as tiny squares while the reprints where Tim made a cover over 10 years later gets the full page. Also, the "Choose your own Goosebumps" line isn't included at all, which is over 50 books, because Tim only did 1 cover for that series. All but 1 of those books are out of print, so it would have been nice to see those covers in good quality instead of jpegs off google.

  Overall each book gets 2 pages, with 1 you get the back of the book paragraph hook, the sketch ideas and a color mock up of the cover (plus possible extras) , and the other page being the cover art with some context given about that picture and maybe an extra blurb. Decent page quality, nice sizing, nothing too crazy.

  Its disappointing for sure if your hardcore into goosebumps, but otherwise the book is nice to have for some nostalgia and to see how hard this artist worked to get these kind of covers out for books coming out every 2 months roughly for nearly 7 years straight.
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  This is a wonderful book and I'm so happy I can add this to my Goosebumps collection. The front cover, the back cover...everything is so well done. The commentary by RL Stine and Sarah Rodriguez is very detailed and informative and I love the color and lay out of the pages. The people who put this book together clearly are fans of Goosebumps. This made my day!
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  After pre ordering in April it has finally arrived today! I'm so happy my book came. I grew up loving goosebumps with my mom and we both have a huge collection. This book is very nostalgic and it's amazing quality. An awsome hardcover and good size. Each page is filled with all the amazing artwork. I 1 million percent recommended this book its so amazing and I love it so much!
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  After pre ordering in April it has finally arrived today! I'm so happy my book came. I grew up loving goosebumps with my mom and we both have a huge collection. This book is very nostalgic and it's amazing quality. An awsome hardcover and good size. Each page is filled with all the amazing artwork. I 1 million percent recommended this book its so amazing and I love it so much!
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  Beautiful large color images of all your favorite goosebumps book covers. Included with each are breakdowns, sketches, alternate versions and thoughts from R.L. Stine and the artists. It's a warm and fuzzy trip down memory lane.
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  Bellissimo libro che raggruppa i bozzetti di Jacobus della storica collana dei Piccoli Brividi. Interviste e curiosità da parte del bozzettista e dello scrittore Stine. Peccato non sia stato tradotto e sia tutt'ora disponibile solo in lingua madre.
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 The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing himself in the work of others, featuring hundreds of paintings by Van Gogh as well as the artists who inspired him--from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Van Gogh: The Life.

 Vincent van Gogh's paintings look utterly unique--his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him.

 Now, drawing on Van Gogh's own thoughtful and often profound comments about the painters he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of the artist's deep engagement with their work. We see Van Gogh's gradual discovery of the subjects he would make famous, from wheat fields to sunflowers. We watch him experimenting with the loose brushwork and bright colors used by Édouard Manet, studying the Pointillist dots used by Georges Seurat, and emulating the powerful depictions of the peasant farmers painted by Jean-François Millet, all vividly illustrated in nearly three hundred full-color images of works by Van Gogh and a variety of other major artists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, positioned side by side.

 Thanks to the vast correspondence from Van Gogh to his beloved brother, Theo, Naifeh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is able to reconstruct Van Gogh's artistic world from within. Observed in eloquent prose that is as compelling as it is authoritative, Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved enables us to share the artist's journey as he created his own daring, influential, and widely beloved body of work.
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 Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader
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 Thank you, Random House, for the gifted book.

 Van Gogh is definitely one of my favorite artists, and my favorite paintings by him are Irises (he has several) and The Starry Night. And Cafe Terrace at Night. I’ll stop! 😂

 This is a stunning, full color, extra large book (think coffee table-sized) I’m so grateful to own. The author, Steven Naifeh, uses Van Gogh’s own words to share the inspiration behind his style. According to the author, he had influences even though his style was absolutely his own. In particular, the author uses letters between Van Gogh and his brother, Theo.

 I love art and I love history, so when the two join up, I am enthralled, and that was certainly the case here. Steven Naifeh is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and this is a remarkable, inspiring, and fascinating book.

 Many of my reviews can also be found on my blog: www.jennifertarheelreader.com and instagram: www.instagram.com/tarheelreader
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 Kendall
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 I got this as a giveaway book! Great insight into the life of van gogh. He is my favorite artist and Iam going ti cherish this book forever.
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 A beautiful piece of work, and a labor of love in more ways than one. Artist, art historian, and biographer Steven Naifeh has put together an opulent assemblage of chapters discussing Vincent Van Gogh's artistic influences: artists and works that delighted him, taught him, and inspired him, from academics and old masters like Gerome, Holbein, Rembrandt, and Ruisdael; through locals like his cousin Mauve and regional schools like the Barbizon painters and the Hague School; to the Impressionist, Symbolist, Cloisonnist and other contemporaries like Gauguin, Lautrec, Signac, and Serusier, as well as Japanese prints and English magazine illustrations. Arranged thematically, Naifeh demonstrates how these other artists influenced and dazzled Vincent in how he saw, experienced and painted human figures, flowers, landscapes, skies, seas, trees, books, and religious belief. Naifeh expertly shows us unexpected and wonderfully apt correspondences, such as Luke Fildes's poignant drawing of Charles Dickens's empty chair after his death, and Vincent's lurid armchair vacated by Gauguin after their rupture; or a Decamps "Orientalist" courtyard opposite Vincent's blazing Arles "Yellow House." Many of the gorgeous color plates are captioned with comments from Vincent himself, underlining his thoughts about them.

 As I paged through the book, admiring many pictures I was not familiar with, I began to notice... wait, Naifeh and his partner Gregory White Smith own this painting? And this one, and that one, and that print? Holy smoke... In a final chapter, Naifeh describes his ventures with Smith (in work, art, and life - they were together for 40 years until Smith's death from a brain tumor in 2014), in researching and writing their acclaimed biographies of Jackson Pollock and Van Gogh, and their tiptoeing into collecting. Clearly they had more money than he modestly cares to admit, but they also had taste, knowledge, and passion. So this book is also a showcase for the wonderful works they have collected. I'm also quietly glad to find someone who seems to share my furtive admiration of Gerome. (In spite of the often icky subject matter, nobody can paint sighthounds or big cats like Gerome!)

 Though Naifeh credits Smith with the writer's gift, his own language often sings with color and admiration. The plates are rich, plentiful, well-arranged. This volume is a pure pleasure and belongs in any art history collection.
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 I just realized this book never was listed on my Goodreads shelves.
 This book was my favorite book this year. It was beautifully and thoughtfully put together. You do not need to have read a biography of Van Gogh to appreciate this book.
 It is not a pretty coffee table book, it is a wonderful account of Van Gogh’s life through the artists who influenced him and their works of art too.
 And it is beautiful enough to be a coffee table book, but don’t just sit it down, read it and enjoy the pictures too.
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 November 4, 2021
 After reading Van Gogh: The Life, I find this book an added treat. Very Interesting, hundreds of reproductions including the works of artists that influenced him. Very nice!
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 Pat Painter
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 January 2, 2023
 comparing artists.

 I loved this book. The comparisons between the works of those who influenced. Van Gogh and those he influenced was fascinating. He was such a complicated man. The world is lucky Jo Van Gogh was there.
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 Julie
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 September 27, 2022
 This book was beautiful - I loved that the art was good-sized and not teeny tiny. The text was interesting and I relished seeing so much more of Van Gogh's art than I knew existed - plus other artists as well. A true treat!
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 January 30, 2022
 I have always been fascinated by Van Gogh because his style contrasts so greatly with artists of his time. He has seemingly always been painted as an insufferable loner, driven mad by his depth and impatient need to create. This book, though affirming the fact that he was often lonely and stubborn, revealed a side of the artist desperate to fit in and learn from the artists around him. He often studied with men he admired, taking on their style and praising their works in his letters to Theo. I was struck by how wrong I was in assuming that he preferred to work alone as the rebellious, superior artist. On the contrary, he begged artists to join together and mirrored their works, often humbly lauding them as the greater painters. However, despite how human he was in his desire to belong, his mental health and impatience would ultimately destroy nearly every relationship feebly secured.

 As I said, I’m fascinated by Van Gogh, but I’ve never particularly loved looking at his artwork. The childlike simplicity of form and bright colors.. I was surprised to find multiple works I really liked in the pages of this book, however, and I have a much greater appreciation for how much depth he brought to his craft. My favorite part of the book was studying the paintings of countless artists he brushed shoulders with. The authors often included both the original art from those he admired, and his rendition placed next to it. Underneath the two were snippets of his letters to Theo about the art and artists. I was surprised at how fully Van Gogh appreciated the work of others and how beautifully he was able to write about it all.
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 Rebecca Yang
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 February 29, 2024
 Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists, so this book was a joy to read. I’ve seen his work at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam several times, in art museums around the world, and visited the places he stayed at and painted in Provence. This book brings to life this great artist, his social and professional relationships, and how different art movements influenced his work. It’s tragic that he felt like a failure and was rejected personally and professionally during the time he lived in, since his work is widely embraced and loved by people all over the world long after his death. It’s also incredible that he was so prolific as an artist even though he only lived to be 37 years old.

 A great book to read if you love Van Gogh!
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 Ellen Woodoff
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 January 3, 2022
 This gorgeous book has large reproductions of many works of Van Gogh and the artists he admired. It is a remarkably researched book - a hallmark of the author. Not a redo of Van Gogh A Life, this book delves even deeper into the mind and art of the artist. Naifeh also writes about the experiences he had with husband Gregory White in building their astounding collection. I highly recommend it.
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 Adina Hamik
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 January 25, 2022
 This was my last study book of Vincent and I found a well rounded and sometimes overlooked how much Vincent admired , imitated and longed to be like his peers... This book helped summarize the artists that truly impacted some of his famous art pieces. Well worth the read and not the glance of photos.
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 Andrea Engle
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 June 7, 2022
 Anchored in Van Gogh’s extensive correspondence, this well-illustrated volume juxtaposes beloved art by the famous and obscure with Van Gogh’s work reflecting their influence … separated into various areas, such as “Peasant Life,” “The Barbizon School,” “The Sea,” and so on … contains magnificent color plates …
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 Mike Dettinger
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 October 1, 2022
 Really a more “ efficient” way into van Gogh’s mind, history and work than the real biographies. What you really want to know is here.

 I read this on my iPad which gave great access to all the paintings and comparisons, but the paintings were not interspersed in the text discussions/descriptions in this format, so that’s a problem.
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 Julie
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 January 17, 2022
 Loved this book and its format—each chapter was about an artist/art school, location, or subject that inspired Van Gogh. It has beautiful graphics, photos, and paintings, and I learned about a few new Dutch artists myself.
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 Sean Lassiter
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 January 23, 2023
 A brief but beautiful look at the artists that inspired Vincent. Some of them he personally knew, some of them he did not, but they each had their unique impact on him. It was also wonderful to learn that it was in fact his sister-in-law, Theo’s wife, Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger, who carried his work into the 20th century and made elevated him to the status we know today.
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 Timothy
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 February 15, 2023
 Sumptuous contextual study of Van Gogh with side by side comparisons of his work and those who influenced him. I read this in digital form and colors were breathtaking! My favorite chapter was the on impressionism! If you love art or Van Gogh , or both -- this is for you!
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 Elissa Torres
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 March 16, 2023
 I listened to this through an audio book and I think that's where I messed up. A lot of the artists that were mentioned are French and I found myself getting tripod up trying to remember who is who in the story.
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 Istvan
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 July 3, 2023
 Into his mind through his eyes - masterful read!

 A great complement to “Van Gogh, A life”. Wonderful insights into his interests and influences. A look inside his mind, not unlike reading his letters. Bravo!
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 Jenny Rekeweg
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 November 28, 2021
 Loved this perspective to Van Gogh’s art.
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 January 9, 2022
 Beautiful,
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 Pam Joseph
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 January 13, 2022
 Boring- but some interesting facts
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 Molly
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 August 2, 2022
 I really wanted to learn more about Van Gogh and prepare a bit for teaching art history this year and this book did the trick!
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 Amanda
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 November 23, 2022
 Wow! A monument to the works that inspired Van Gogh. Beautifully written.
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 Kimberly Richardson
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 June 1, 2023
 Vincent would have been both astonished and proud of this book.
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 Kirk Johnson
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 July 28, 2023
 A wonderful idea and very well executed. I wish this was part of a series.
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 Cheryl Walker
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 September 9, 2023
 Beautiful art and interesting insight into the artists
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 David W
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 October 22, 2023
 Wonderful narrative. Offering more than an art history perspective, it weaves together a cohesive story of art styles and artists … I almost wished it never ends.
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 I enjoyed this book.
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 February 23, 2022
 A very enjoyable read. A great way to learn about Van Gogh - his life, his art and the way it was viewed by others then and now, his letters, his thoughts, and his fellow artists.
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
2021-11-02
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<div><div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3536004-jenna"></a></section><section><p>776 reviews1,154 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4406028243">December 29, 2021</a></section><div><p><br />(<i>Andy Warhol &amp; Ai Weiwei Exhibition-35, photo by Russell Charters)</i> <p><b>"With art I opened up a space that was new to me, an abandoned space infested with weeds, in wild and desolate ruin.... it offered the prospect of self-redemption and a path toward detachment and escape."</b></p><p>In 2016, my partner and I visited the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. There was an exhibition by the artist Ai Weiwei, someone I hadn't previously heard of.</p><p>I was captivated by his work and wanted to know more about him. I read a couple books and watched some of his documentaries. The more I learned the more intrigued -and impressed- I became. He quickly became <b>my favourite living artist</b>. </p><p>Ai Weiwei's early years were spent in "Little Siberia", where his poet father had been sent by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution. He was sentenced to hard labor and his son was punished along with him.</p><p>He endured many hardships and in spite of, or because of, that Ai Weiwei became an activist, using his art to speak for the rights of people. His courage and compassion are tantamount to his artistic genius. </p><p><i>100 Years of Joys and Sorrows</i> is his memoir, beginning with his early life in that hard labor camp. The first part of the book felt disjointed and detached, as though he were writing about someone and something that was foreign to him. He writes, <i>"I felt no attachment to my memories. My memories didn’t belong to me"</i> and that is apparent. </p><p>The little he wrote about himself and his early years is entwined with details of his father's life. It jumped around... he would write a tiny bit about his child self and I got the sense it was too uncomfortable, perhaps too painful, for him to write about so he would quickly shift to writing about his father instead.</p><p>However, after the first one hundred pages or so, this all changed and I could feel the person writing, could feel that <i>he</i> felt what he was writing. And I was enthralled.</p><p>I loved learning more about his life and the inspiration behind many of his works. No matter how the Chinese government tries to suppress him, Ai Weiwei never fails to speak up and to use his work to speak for those who are unable to speak for themselves. He was under constant surveillance, kept in a secret prison for a time, was under house arrest for five years, and now lives in exile in Portugal. But no matter their efforts, the Chinese government was unable to silence him.</p><p><i>100 Years of Joys and Sorrows</i> is a memoir worth reading, and Ai Weiwei is a man worth admiring and emulating. If you aren't familiar with his work, I urge you to Google him.... and read this wonderful book. It is powerful and interesting, a unique blend of historical fact, memoir, and philosophical thoughts. </p><p></p><p><b>"I am no admirer of order—whether order appears in Eastern or Western guise, it always triggers suspicion in me. I dislike the constraints on human nature and the restrictions on choice that order imposes."<p></p></b></p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3536004?shelf=art">art</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3536004?shelf=asian-authors">asian-authors</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3536004?shelf=memoir-biography">memoir-biography</a> </ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8051792-lisa"></a></section><section><p>1,429 reviews543 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4360068292">December 5, 2021</a></section><div><p>[3.4] I am grateful to this book for bringing Ai Weiwei's art and activism to my attention. After reading it, I browsed through photos of his many installations, creations and "destructions". I also listened to a fascinating podcast of him talking about his art and feelings about China. Next, I plan on watching some of his documentaries. <p>Unfortunately, his writing is devoid of the passion found in his art. I found the book to be a fairly dry reportage of his life, without much introspection or emotion. He is very reticent about his personal life. The beginning of the book, which focuses on his childhood, banished with his poet father to a remote outpost called Little Siberia, is the most compelling.</p></p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/597461-elyse-walters"></a></section><section><p>3,944 reviews35.5k followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4423347869">January 2, 2022</a></section><div><p>Audiobook…read by David Shih<br /> ….13 hours and 7 minutes <p>I appreciated learning about Ai Weiwei ….(born in 1957 in Beijing), the Chinese contemporary artist…<br />…. Architect, activist, sound producer, film directors, visual artist….<br />I honesty never knew a thing about him until this book….<br />his artwork, his artistic influences, his childhood in exile with his father — the son of a poet - history about his father - [a year in Paris] - <br />the cultural revolution before- during - and after - <br />The political history —<br />Ai’s social activism - his nitty-gritty family background stories — his marriages — his son - his career development- living in New York - his return to China - imprisonment- and his reflections on freedom.</p><p>Ai Weiwei is a humanitarian powerhouse….<br /> …. a global citizen, Artist and thinker!!</p><p>I read up more on Wikipedia—<br />(fabulous artwork; sculptural installations, architectural projects, photographs, and videos)….<br />and enjoyed a YouTube interview. </p><p>Although the audiobook reader - for ‘this’ book:<br />“1000 Years of Joy and Sorrows”, was excellent …<br />at times ‘listening’ to it became daunting — for one reason or another - and I started to become indifferent…<br />That said….it got me thinking about the years in Chinese cultural and political history- kidnappings- refugees- ‘sorrow &amp; joy’ combinations in any one man’s lifetime …<br />And the discovery of some magnificent artwork. </p><p>Today… Ai Weiwei lives in Portugal. He Maintains a base in Cambridge, Rivers son attends school and a studio in Berlin. He says she will stay in Portugal long-term “unless something happens”. </p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/597461?shelf=audiobook">audiobook</a></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4318508-sahitya"></a></section><section><p>1,026 reviews203 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4275130524">December 9, 2021</a></section><div><p>I love going to museums but I’m not very knowledgeable about art, and particularly ignorant about modern art. So, when I first saw this memoir, I was intrigued because I wanted to know more about this person’s story but I didn’t know who he was. However, I was eager to get to know him. <p>This is a memoir I can’t review. Written for his son, Ai Weiwei documents both his father’s and his life in this book and as much as it’s about these two people, it’s also about living under an authoritarian regime which doesn’t believe in freedom of expression. And in such a place, even the existence of the father-son duo and many other such artist activists is a spark that might ignite a fire one day. Their life story might feel bleak, especially his father’s life who was wrongfully convicted and exiled for years on end during the cultural revolution, but this is also the story of a family which resiliently survived the oppression and never let go of their artistic expression or principles.</p><p>It’s both a sad and awe inspiring memoir and I felt small and insignificant after getting to know such artists. The writing itself may feel detached and dry but I think it reflects the author’s own feelings about his life and purpose. But all the art interspersed within the text is fascinating and I can’t wait to read up more about his installations as well as about his father’s poetry. </p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4318508?shelf=2021-read">2021-read</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4318508?shelf=5-star">5-star</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4318508?shelf=non-fiction">non-fiction</a> </ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/14046991-ben-rogers"></a></section><section><p>2,196 reviews136 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4347607468">November 25, 2021</a></section><div><p>First off, let me say how much I like Ai's work. Very provocative and thought provoking pieces. <p>Now, for the book. </p><p>This was a good read. An interesting memoir and had some touching moments. </p><p>That being said, it was not as shocking or <i>activist</i> as I thought it was going to be. </p><p>Still a great memoir. </p><p>Some pretty fascinating and eye opening moments too. </p><p>3.8/5</p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/14046991?shelf=activism">activism</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/14046991?shelf=art">art</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/14046991?shelf=autobiography">autobiography</a> </ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4160665975">August 7, 2021</a></section><div><p>Outspoken artist and international human-rights icon Ai Weiwei here chillingly documents--originally as a record for his young son, and subsequently for all the rest of us--the brutal life of privation and repression he experienced growing into manhood in remote China before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution as the son of a prominent poet, one of many thousands of wrongfully imprisoned political prisoners. Years later, when he himself is taken into custody for 81 angst-ridden days by Chinese authorities who do not respect his provocative politically-charged public art and social media posts, Ai feels a renewed closeness with his now-deceased father: both men of principle, courage, and conviction under extreme and protracted pressure. Throughout his life, Ai has sacrificed almost every creature comfort and stability in pursuit of his artistic freedom (and the right of others to enjoy the same) against overwhelming odds, enduring a fallen-apart marriage, an art studio bulldozed before his eyes, hostile 24/7 surveillance by Chinese police and state, and much more. Through it all, his wit, his optimism, and his playful vision of art as meaningful expression remain unstoppable. Luckily for us, after a nail-biting exit from his native land, Ai is today writing and creating his thought-provoking art installations from a new home, safe in Europe. As a bonus, Ai's memoir is replete with his own sketches of scenes and artworks which played a pivotal role throughout his development as artist and human-rights advocate. Thought-provoking, meaningful, very deftly told. </p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101668871-shelby-thompson"></a></section><section><p>302 reviews2 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4303119636">October 28, 2021</a></section><div><p>This is the type of book I can see Timothée Chalamet (NYU Chalemet, not Dune Chalemet. People can change) reading on the subway while making little notes in the margins about the necessity of sacrificing ones’ self for artistic expression, while literally attending NYU. The bastion of self-expression. <p>To be fair, Al Weiwei was constructing his artistic identity in communist China, not the Ivy Towers of the American education system, but his writing contains the same thinly-veiled elitism. Which sucks, because his writing is beautiful. His memoir tracks the parallel events of his father’s life (a famous Chinese poet who was exiled to a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution), and his own clashes with authority, which culminated in his 3-month detention in 2011. The two different stories are supposed to highlight how the memory of government oppression in China has continued ripple effects across generations. Instead, I found myself comparing the two stories, and found that the story of his father held far more emotion and self-awareness than that of his own. </p><p>Weiwei writes in a detached style, which works when he’s writing about a man who withheld many of his emotions and troubled thoughts from his family, and instead poured them into his devotion to his art and his country. But when talking about his own life, I got the sense that he’s never really examined his personal choices or the impact that he has had on the people around them. He briefly mentions friends, colleagues, lovers, and then rushes on from them (both figuratively and literally. Both Weiwei and his father seem to have played fast and loose with romantic fidelity). He is so filled with scorn for his fellow country-men and their sheep-like tendencies, but doesn’t question the fact that both he and his father were able to fuel much of their artistic livelihoods through loans from their family and the unwavering financial and domestic support of their wives and international friends. </p><p>This could be a cool book if it were trimmed down and focused in more on the history of China’s oppression of the arts – if that sounds interesting to you, then you can just read the first half of the book which focuses on his father, and skip the rest.</p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/101668871?shelf=arcs">arcs</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/101668871?shelf=memoir-to-read">memoir-to-read</a></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51113013-rebecca-rubenstein"></a></section><section><p>119 reviews4 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4314658231">November 24, 2021</a></section><div><p>My recent deep dive of Ai Wei Wei includes this riveting memoir, his Rapture show in Lisbon, and his many documentaries, some by him and some about him. I know I’m not alone when I say Ai Wei Wei is one of the most important artists / activists of our time, and I deeply appreciate his and his family’s sacrifices that make this world a better place.</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4124108547">October 17, 2021</a></section><div><p>You might know him for creating the “Bird’s Nest” which is the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.<p>As for this book talking about life in the camps in China was very eye-opening and interesting. But I found this book did bounce around a little too much. So much so I could not get a handle on his entire family. It kept going back and forth between him and his father.</p><p>Sadly most editors now seem to turn a blind eye to these last two issues in the book:</p><p>Explaining how Chairman Mao would talk/write to his followers is fine but dumbing down your audience and trying to compare this to Trump’s late-night tweets is just stupid and an insult to the reader. (page 11)</p><p>Also on page 366, the author claims that in most European countries that migrants receive no assistance is incorrect.</p><p>If I have two items already that are false how can I take the rest of the book seriously?</p><p><a href="https://theworldisabookandiamitsreader.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows/">https://theworldisabookandiamitsreade...</a></p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/116663272?shelf=done">done</a></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77309914-natalia"></a></section><section><p>268 reviews29 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4541032245">February 13, 2022</a></section><div><p>It was an impressive journey to Ai Weiwei's family history that is tightly connected to the history of China. Some parts were heartbreaking, some were immensely insightful in providing the artist's view on his sources of inspiration. <br />As for me, I've learnt a lot about contemporary China, about the impact of a totalitarian state on people's life. I wish Ai Weiwei had paid more attention to his own work, as he only touches upon main pieces, these bits are amazing and could be not so brief.<br />I can't recommend this book enough, I think it's interesting not only to those who enjoy art, but to everyone who wants to understand China or get inspiration from Ai Weiwei's courage and wisdom.</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12071718-brett"></a></section><section><p>96 reviews1 follower</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321389286">November 7, 2021</a></section><div><p>It was a great choice for a 100th book this year. Short history of the recent Century in China plus the personal carrer choices of named artist. I knew his work as a documentarian, but the rest not so much. Definitely recommend!!!!</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74849917-alva-markelius"></a></section><section><p>8 reviews1 follower</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4510598717">February 7, 2022</a></section><div><p>I’m speechless, such an incredible story and wonderful storyteller. I can only say read it!! </p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4329817021">November 27, 2021</a></section><div><p>-While a lot of other reviews touched on Ai Wei Wei's time in exile with his father, I don't agree with it being the most compelling part of the book - we get it shovelling poo sucks and shovelling frozen poo sucks even more<br />-His first hand accounts of living as an immigrant, his experience in solitary confinement, and his shrewd ways of creating art while fighting injustice made for a very enjoyable, varied read<br />-I find it very touching that this book came about after reflection on his strained relationship with his own father. Further complicated by state censorship of both individuals, the act of writing a well researched memoir of both their hardships/experiences for his son's understanding is powerful form of reconciliation<br />-Getting a personal explanation on the thought processes behind the development/evolution of his installations is very enlightening - but perhaps some of the intrigue/mystery/magic behind contemporary art is lost when attributed to storylines and reason. The little drawings and his crass, tongue in cheek sense of humour was also really great (grass mud horse lol)<br />-Honestly astonishing how Ai Lao is so poignant at the age of like 10... take a look at this list of interview questions he posed: <a href="https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/12/ai-weiwei-answers-20-questions-from-his-son-ai-lao/">https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/...</a><br />-Prob my fave book of 2021, would love to see his next exhibition or see some of his documentaries, I should brush up on my mando lol</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34137493-patricia"></a></section><section><p>338 reviews3 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4834956681">July 9, 2022</a></section><div><p>Ai Weiwei’s life is so fascinating &amp; I knew very little about him before reading this! Thinking about art, democracy, elitism, and fatherhood! BTG #2</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4367260554">December 2, 2021</a></section><div><p>A fascinating portrait of an artist that illuminates China's repressive history over the last 80 years. Ai Weiwei's father was a famous poet (friend of Neruda etc.) but was also at Yunnan with the Red Army in the 1940s and knew Mao Tse-Tung, Xi Jinping's father, Chou Enlai, and many other prominent figures. Despite that he was sent into exile as a 'rightist' during the Cultural Revolution because he insisted on artistic freedom of expression rather than simply being a 'worker artist'. So Ai Weiwei was some kind of 'princeling'. This book is more about Ai Weiwei's social activism rather than his art, although he has illustrated it with many lovely line drawings. Inspired by Act Up and other activists in New York where he lived in the early 1990's (making money drawing portraits in Times Square), he went back to China and became a situationist-type radical. The state did not know how to handle him because his activism was not obviously directed against the state, rather it sought to ridicule repression and make fun of it. When he was under surveillance, he hung red lanterns under every CCTV camera in his street. The first half of the book is about his father's exile during the Cultural Revolution, which Ai Weiwei spent with him. The second half depicts his long struggle with the Chinese state and his secret detention and daily interrogation.</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/56527364-seb-swann"></a></section><section><p>140 reviews4 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4312035139">December 4, 2021</a></section><div><p>“Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in our lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space.”<p>If you like memoirs about dissident artists; Ai Weiwei’s story is powerful, his wisdom is thought-provoking and resolute, and his voice is deeply needed, especially at a time when authoritarianism is on the rise around the world and advocates for the disenfranchised, the displaced, and the persecuted are needed most. </p></p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7356283-olivia"></a></section><section><p>74 reviews</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4268295531">July 18, 2022</a></section><div><p>I really admire Ai Weiwei’s art and activism, so it’s disappointing I can’t recommend his memoir.<p>The first 30-40% of the book is about his life of his father Ai Qing. His father is a very famous Chinese poet and I understand sharing details about your parents’ lives to provide context for your own, but I wasn’t expecting him to dedicate such a huge portion of the book to him.</p><p>His writing style is quite dry and is mostly concerned with explaining a timeline of events or minute details of a scene, with very little insight to his thoughts and feelings during formative and fascinating parts of his life. The day that he's released after the Chinese government detained him for 81 days, the most emotion we get from him is: “I was looking forward to seeing Lu Qing and Ai Lao,” his wife and son. I feel like I didn’t learn much at all about how he thinks about art or how he processed events in his life. However, his experiences do provide a very clear and maddening view into how unjustly the Chinese government treats people who criticize the CCP, and made me admire how he's conducted himself and managed to still make such a big impact while being censored at every turn.</p></p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4119460-aubrey"></a></section><section><p>1,290 reviews735 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4247023381">April 4, 2023</a></section><div><p>3.5/5<p>Once upon a time, I thought Ai Weiwei was the coolest person ever. I remember tracking the Bird's Nest at the 2008 Olympics, attending a transpacific workshop where Ai responded to translated questions while broadcasted on a projector screen, adding a compilation of his blog posts to my TBR, and otherwise becoming intimately familiar with the name and the mystique attached but not really, until now, devoting some time to figuring out who he actually is. Now, reading this, a triptych memoir that frames Ai's life between the ancestry that is his father and the progeny that is his son, I found both more and less than I had expected to. It's certainly Ai's life, and it certainly presents a more complicated picture than I imagine the typical US WASP has of the China that raised Ai's father and sent Ai's son on his way, both the good and the ill. The fact of the matter, though, is that I operate from behind a US-lens that I am constantly trying to deconstruct, and the fact that my country continues to whip itself into a Sinophobic frenzy means I have to notice every time Ai criticizes China and falls silent in regards to the US, and there was enough inconsistency in certain key respects that words such as "democracy" were a bit too cherry-picked by this work's conclusion. Still, I may shove my rating over the other side of the half star divide, for I would say that this piece does a much better job at what it does than much else on the US market, and that may convince me to adjust my judgment by the time this review is through.</p><p>If you started reading this book with your focus firmly set on Ai Weiwei, you would be forgiven for wondering whether you were reading the right book, considering how much time the first section spends drawing up a portrait of Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing: Chinese poet, Parisian student, anti-nationalist, sometimes social philanderer and target under the Anti-Rightest Movement and Cultural Revolution. Personally, I was rather pleased with the structure, as Ai didn't mince his efforts to flesh out the history of both his father and his country, delving into the Occidental imperialism that would radicalize both Chinese nationalist and Chinese communist (which can be explored in much greater detail in Mishra's <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/13536357.From_the_Ruins_of_Empire_The_Revolt_Against_the_West_and_the_Remaking_of_Asia">From the Ruins of Empire</a>). This complicated what could have otherwise been yet another 'China bad, US good!' slogan that so many Chinese works that are permitted in the Anglo sphere are reduced to, thus ultimately strengthening Ai's entire narrative. Indeed, it is these complications that were my bread and butter, noteworthy ones including Ai's sympathetic relationships with many of the "grunts" who had played an unwilling roll in his 81-day detention. Still, I have to wonder at an incident where, after taking photos of cops beating protestors in the streets, Ai's first instinct was to run the film straight to the New York Times, presented with little of the critical commentary that tends to suffuse his commentary on other similarly charged interactions between individual and hegemonic media. True, Ai Weiwei was young back then, but some acknowledgement of the similarities between building his reputation off of giving the US status quo power over mainstream representation of dissident social discourse and government lackeys earning their pay by tailing Ai would have signified a consistent level of critique that I could get behind. In light of that, Ai's closing commentary on the relationship between artistry, freedom of speech, and the powers that be wasn't as airtight as it could have been, so while I'm not going judge his actions, I'm also not going to jive with his giving the US a relative free pass. I appreciate Ai's commitment to facing off with China's authoritarianism; all I ask is a little consistency beyond the borders.</p><p>I've reached the close of my review, and I haven't decided to tip my rating over to the four star side of things. I also haven't decided to delete <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/10331046.Ai_Weiwei_s_Blog_Writings__Interviews__and_Digital_Rants__2006_2009">Ai Weiwei's Blog</a> from my TBR, as while it has languished unread and unacquired since 2013, I'm still curious about what material wasn't backed up by the Internet Archive (threatened by its own share of greedy and puerile antagonists) after the blog was taken down by the Chinese government in 2009. My librarian powers, considerably developed by nine months of collection development, shows me that that particular work is present in the collections of many an academic library, including the more local ones. So, theoretically, I might be able to wrangle a copy in the near future if I really put my mind to it, and knowing that was sufficient for me to keep on with this Ai Weiwei engagement of mine, at least for one more book. Life has taught many before me the woes of holding up someone as idol and will teach many more long after my bones have been ground to dust, but it has also given me the ability to hold many true realities in the palm of my hand and not throw out the baby with the bathwater on any of them. It is true that Ai Weiwei faces oppression under the current Chinese government, but it is also true that the bigoted imperialism of the current US government has a history of profiting from racist fearmongering about said oppressions, always while hiding behind a selected coterie of public facing speakers as a show of diverse authenticity. As such, I think news about Ai and his doings is always going to draw my eye, one way or another. But I have my own fights to conduct in my own homeland, and just as I trust him to know what's best in his own country, I trust him to not interfere with me in mine.</p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4119460?shelf=3-star">3-star</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4119460?shelf=antidote-think-twice-all">antidote-think-twice-all</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4119460?shelf=antidote-translated">antidote-translated</a> </ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74798027-jessica-paul"></a></section><section><p>65 reviews</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4277576873">October 18, 2021</a></section><div><p>DNF - I gave this a good go and gave up at about 40% through the book. I found this very difficult to read due to a combination of factors; the telling is not chronological - there are points when you jump back and forward between Ai Weiwei being a small boy to before he was born making it difficult to follow. The translation didn’t lend itself to immersive reading and I found myself tripping over and rereading sentences. Ai Weiwei and his family suffered immensely and I just wasn't in the right place to read about starvation, death and destruction. I may come back to it, but it's unlikely. If you did want to learn more about modern Chinese history I’d recommend Wild Swans by Jung Chang which is one of my very few five star reads. <br /></p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/116901084-ian"></a></section><section><p>5 reviews</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4340957375">November 16, 2021</a></section><div><p>Ai Weiwei is one of the more important thinkers of the present. There are moments when the translation feels somewhat poor but the message holds. Wonderful insights into his mind and way of processing the world.</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28550488-lynn"></a></section><section><p>354 reviews4 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4820328746">July 9, 2022</a></section><div><p>This has so many five-star ratings and I'm not I'm not sure why. It was a lot more dull than I expected it to be. And I feel like I need to apologize to every member of my book club for picking this book as this month's book</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44158545-andrew"></a></section><section><p>227 reviews</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4324756948">November 7, 2021</a></section><div><p>BBC Radio Book of the Week: really interesting information on a troubled life and time.</p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27591228-lapl-reads"></a></section><section><p>536 reviews164 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4856187511">July 18, 2022</a></section><div><p>Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous, and infamous, internationally known artists. His artistic style ranges from representational to pushing boundaries all over the place. Not only in his visual work has he stretched and pushed, but in his thoughts, ideas and comments about his native country and its lack of expressive freedom; its authoritarian disregard for humanity and oppression of different types of people within its own borders, as well as supporting various types of repression throughout the world. This drive to express, and lack of concern for his own safety, landed Ai Weiwei in prison and under torture. It might be part of his family’s tradition, in that his father Ai Qing, once a celebrated poet and friend to Mao, was sent to a horrific labor camp, where Ai Weiwei grew up--in exile in his own country. Born in 1957, it was a time according to Ai Weiwei of the "New China, and, "In satisfying the demands of the new order, the Chinese people suffered a withering of spiritual life and lost the ability to tell things as they had truly occurred." His father was among those who dared not speak about what had taken place, for fear of further punishment and mistreatment.<p>On April 3, 2011, as Ai Weiwei was about to fly out of Beijing's Capital Airport, " ... a swarm of plainclothes police descended on me, and for the next eighty-one days I disappeared into a black hole." It gave him time to reflect about his father, and part of his country's history that was blocked out of existence, and fear silenced many of its citizens, who were unable to talk about what had taken place and how they had been treated. Looking back at his own history, it is multifaceted. After Mao’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, the family returned to Beijing, where Ai Weiwei studied art and animation. From 1980 to 1983, he was allowed to leave China and study in the United States, which was a great awakening for him, being able to learn about all types of artists, art forms and freedom of expression. In 1993 he returned to China because his father was ill, but the artist continued expanding his artistic forms of expression, until it was more than the Chinese government could bear, and he was arrested and his passport was confiscated. In 2015 his passport was returned to him and he moved to Berlin; later to England, and now lives in Portugal. </p><p>The title of the book is part of a poem written by his father, Ai Qing. The book is a memoir about his father; about himself; about his country; about the necessity for freedom of expression everywhere in the world. Many of Ai Weiwei's international political positions are controversial, but living in the West has made it possible for him to express those ideas. If there is any group of people who seek freedom of expression, it is artists, and as one of those artists this man does not veer off course. For someone who has been a witness to his family being tormented, punished and exiled, and having survived similar treatment, Ai Weiwei takes the long view and has a spiritual patience about repression and about his art. Despite living in relative freedom, he knows that because of his notoriety, there are forces within China that will not allow him to live completely free. He knows that he is still a hunted man by those who fear what this one man might say or do.</p><p> Throughout the book, as well as the book jacket, there are illustrations by Ai Weiwei, with additional photographs of the artist, his family and his work.</p><p>Reviewed by Sheryn Morris, Librarian, Literature &amp; Fiction</p></p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1927018-patricia"><i></i></a></section><section><p>Author <i></i>3 books102 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5192296769">January 4, 2023</a></section><div><p>The quote I remember most came at the end and for me summed up Ai Weiwei's life and work: "Art is the antidote to fear" (p. 347). It's seldom that one reads a book that completely reverses one's former opinions or judgments about an individual, but this book was such an experience. I realize now that my former erroneous impressions came solely from a lack of curiosity and knowledge and I sorely regret that I once considered Ai Weiwei just another contemporary [Chinese] artist out for personal/financial gain. That couldn't have been farther from the truth. <p>From the first few pages, I was spellbound by the story of Ai Weiwei's life, which he begins with the story of his father--a highly respected poet who suffered throughout his life for his beliefs and poetry. His father was given the name Ai Haicheng (b. March 27, 1910 in Zhejiang Province), born into a pre-Mao China at a time of great political and national chaos as it transitioned from the Qing Dynasty into an unknown future. He trained at Hangzhou's National Art Academy but secured permission to study abroad in Paris in the late 1920s, the city George Orwell described then as a "moveable feast". Later in life, he would be known as Ai Qing. His son, Ai Weiwei, would later follow, unknowingly at first, in his father's footsteps--moving abroad (but to New York, not Paris), eventually returning 'home' to China to be branded an enemy of the 'new' China. Today, after arrest, imprisonment and considerable harassments, he lives abroad. </p><p>Ai Weiwei grew up with his father as they were moved from desolate post to post during the 40s and 50s, and it isn't until the end of his autobiography and father's biography, that we find the reason for the writing of this volume: "That night, as the hours stretched out ahead of me, I thought of my father, and I realized just how incomplete my understanding of him was... My father had endured a harsher one, when so many people paid with their lives for the words they uttered. I had never asked him what he was thinking, never wondered what the world was like for him as he looked at it through his one good eye. I felt a deep pang of regret at the unbridgeable gap between him and me. Then and there, the idea of writing this book came to me, for I did not want [my son] to suffer the same regret" (p. 315). </p><p>If you have seen or heard of Ai Weiwei's exhibitions and pieces, without reading or hearing where they sprang from in his heart, you will not understand his art, as I did not for many years. As many others interested in China, we sometimes wear blinders to that which makes us uncomfortable, and there is much in today's China that should make those of us who live in more open and democratic societies, more than uncomfortable. The word I want to write is 'outraged'. All humanity should feel fortunate to have those brave enough to express their outrage (through their words, or votes, or acts of protest, or art) against regimes who claim to be 'for the people' but who do not understand what makes humans 'human'. "Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space" (p. 369). For Ai Weiwei, art was the antidote.</p><p>For those who do not consider Ai Weiwei's documentaries and installations 'art', I would urge you to be open to a re-boot. </p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1927018?shelf=china-general">china-general</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1927018?shelf=chinese-painting">chinese-painting</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1927018?shelf=chinese-poetry">chinese-poetry</a> </ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10628354-annie"></a></section><section><p>3,432 reviews62 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4837542862">July 10, 2022</a></section><div><p>Originally posted on my blog: <a href="https://nonstopreaderbooks.blogspot.com/2022/07/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-memoir.html">Nonstop Reader</a>.<p><b>
 <i>1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows</i>
</b> is a memoir by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aiww/?hl=en">Ai Weiwei</a> of the sociopolitical changes in the 20th century in China and of his own place in the larger picture as an artist, philosopher, and activist. Released 2nd Nov 2021 by Penguin Random House on their <a href="https://crownpublishing.com/">Crown Publishing</a> imprint, it's 400 pages and is available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats. Paperback format due out in 4th quarter 2022. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately it makes it much easier to find particular text in a search. </p><p>This is an engaging and honest memoir of the author's life, part of which he spent in exile as a child with his father, a poet of renown. The philosophy with which he was surrounded and the privation of his early life informed much of his personality and later artistic expression. The writing is intelligent and open and there are glimpses of genuine wit and humor. I enjoyed his reminiscences very much; the recollections of culture shock and confusion as a young Chinese student in America were touching and honestly told. </p><p>The book is enhanced throughout with glimpses into his sketchbooks and drawings. They add a lot of depth to the read. The translation work is flawlessly provided by <a href="https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/allan-h-barr#!tabset_0=1">Dr. Allan Barr</a>. It scans very well and doesn't read in the English edition as though it were translated, which is obviously the ideal.</p><p>Four and a half stars. This would be a superlative choice for public library acquisition as well as recommended for readers of memoir and biography. </p><p>Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.</p></p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10628354?shelf=netgalley">netgalley</a></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2715247-james-klagge"></a></section><section><p>Author <i></i>14 books80 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4546558407">March 20, 2022</a></section><div><p>I read this because I had heard of the author and because I know next to nothing about China. It seemed a good place to start. When I was in 7th grade I remember reading the cover story in Time Magazine about the Cultural Revolution. (I see there was such a cover on January 13, 1967.) That's about it! <br />This memoir recounts much from the life of the author's father (the '30's through the '60's) through about 6 years ago, when the author emigrated. Although it offers a certain perspective (both author and his father were dissenters who spent much time being repressed/persecuted), I felt like I learned a lot. <br />There is a long chapter recounting 81 days when the author was disappeared and held for daily questioning and round-the-clock observation. It could have been written by Kafka--scenes from <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/49563.The_Trial">The Trial</a>--it was so absurd. The book closes with the author's reflections about art and free speech in the oppressive society. This reminded me very much of the dissenting Czech writers of the Communist era. <br />The author's experience with and accounts of government officials and soldiers made them seem strikingly incompetent and uncaring and mechanical--as though really no one believes in the system but virtually everyone goes along with it anyway. It sounds hopeless. The author resisted as much as he could until 2015, when he emigrated with official permission. It doesn't sound like he'll be going back.<br />Worth reading.</p></div><section><ul><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2715247?shelf=contemporary-issues">contemporary-issues</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2715247?shelf=history">history</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2715247?shelf=memoirs-autobio">memoirs-autobio</a> </ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28444859-catinca-ciornei"></a></section><section><p>196 reviews11 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4833694204">July 8, 2022</a></section><div><p>The book was amazing because the subject is so - it describes Ai Weiwei and his father's lives, enmeshed with China's political history from 1910 until just now, 2015. Ai Weiwei is an artist, but more so he is a political activist, a creative energetic intellect popping widely in a China no longer secluded from the rest of the world. The book is powerful because it offers a wide-ranging glance over China's recent past, just so we can glimmer its painful horrific violent cauldron; empires fell, people fought, killed and were killed in great numbers, Japan invaded, the Western powers were neglectful or worst yet, conceited, and through it all artists forged on. The work is a bit hopeless - how can one fight against hundreds and hundreds of years of pain and pressure; but it also offers wonderful hope: that one man's actions are always and anyplace worthwhile, that keeping your straight line will ultimately force society to notice you and realign to you. Ai Weiwei seems to never once think that his efforts are in vain; maybe it is ego, maybe it is an unrelenting sense of history, but he keeps the flame alive for all. </p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/127160008-katya-bediukh"></a></section><section><p>28 reviews7 followers</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5275872636">February 14, 2023</a></section><div><p>Ай Вейвей – один з найвизначніших митців сучасності. У своїй творчості (як Ай і сам про себе пише) він завжди балансує між трьома ідентичностями – митцем, громадянином та активістом. Незважаючи на довготривалу ві��сутність комфорту, перебування в ув’язненні, постійне переслідування китайської поліції та держави, Ай Вейвей зберігає у собі оптимізм та продовжує слідувати своїм цінностями. <p>Нижче наведу декілька цитат, які стали для мене ключовими для розуміння особистості митця та його творчості. </p><p>«Свобода береться з жертв, на які ти йдеш, щоб її здобути. Обмеження беруться лише зі страху в серці, а протиотрута страху — мистецтво»</p><p>«Правами, які я намагався захистити, повинні користуватись всі, а негативні наслідки повинен терпіти тільки я сам. Це розуміння дає мені моральну силу.»</p><p>«Самовираження - важлива складова життя людини. Без звуків людських голосів, без тепла й кольорів у нашому житті, без уважних поглядів Земля - лише бездушна каменюка, зависла в космосі.» </p><p>4/5, бо текст здався сухуватим та відстороненим.</p></p></div><section><ul></ul></section><hr /></section></article></div><div><article><div><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/98425639-lillie-guo"></a></section><section><p>74 reviews1 follower</p></section></div><section><section><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5345238909">February 20, 2023</a></section><div><p>4.75/5<p>an epic! can’t sum this reading experience up any better than this quote from edward snowden:</p><p>"This is the rarest sort of memoir, rising above the arc of history to grasp at the limits of the soul. 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.”</p></p></div><section><ul></ul></section></section></article></div></div></div>||||I|||| * Home
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 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 courage, argument, defeat, and triumph. His is one of the great voices of our time."--Andrew Solomon

 Hailed as "an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process.

 Once an intimate of Mao Zedong and the nation's most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as "Little Siberia," where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol. With candor and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist--and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime.

 Ai Weiwei's sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements include helping to design the iconic Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing. His political activism has long made him a target of the Chinese authorities, which culminated in months of secret detention without charge in 2011. Here, for the first time, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his life story and that of his father, whose creativity was stifled.

 At once ambitious and intimate, Ai Weiwei's 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression.
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 Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most important living artists. Born in 1957, He lives in Cambridge.

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 Jenna ❤ ❀ ❤
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 December 29, 2021

 ( Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei Exhibition-35, photo by Russell Charters)

 "With art I opened up a space that was new to me, an abandoned space infested with weeds, in wild and desolate ruin.... it offered the prospect of self-redemption and a path toward detachment and escape."

 In 2016, my partner and I visited the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. There was an exhibition by the artist Ai Weiwei, someone I hadn't previously heard of.

 I was captivated by his work and wanted to know more about him. I read a couple books and watched some of his documentaries. The more I learned the more intrigued -and impressed- I became. He quickly became my favourite living artist .

 Ai Weiwei's early years were spent in "Little Siberia", where his poet father had been sent by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution. He was sentenced to hard labor and his son was punished along with him.

 He endured many hardships and in spite of, or because of, that Ai Weiwei became an activist, using his art to speak for the rights of people. His courage and compassion are tantamount to his artistic genius.

 100 Years of Joys and Sorrows is his memoir, beginning with his early life in that hard labor camp. The first part of the book felt disjointed and detached, as though he were writing about someone and something that was foreign to him. He writes, "I felt no attachment to my memories. My memories didn’t belong to me" and that is apparent.

 The little he wrote about himself and his early years is entwined with details of his father's life. It jumped around... he would write a tiny bit about his child self and I got the sense it was too uncomfortable, perhaps too painful, for him to write about so he would quickly shift to writing about his father instead.

 However, after the first one hundred pages or so, this all changed and I could feel the person writing, could feel that he felt what he was writing. And I was enthralled.

 I loved learning more about his life and the inspiration behind many of his works. No matter how the Chinese government tries to suppress him, Ai Weiwei never fails to speak up and to use his work to speak for those who are unable to speak for themselves. He was under constant surveillance, kept in a secret prison for a time, was under house arrest for five years, and now lives in exile in Portugal. But no matter their efforts, the Chinese government was unable to silence him.

 100 Years of Joys and Sorrows is a memoir worth reading, and Ai Weiwei is a man worth admiring and emulating. If you aren't familiar with his work, I urge you to Google him.... and read this wonderful book. It is powerful and interesting, a unique blend of historical fact, memoir, and philosophical thoughts.



 "I am no admirer of order—whether order appears in Eastern or Western guise, it always triggers suspicion in me. I dislike the constraints on human nature and the restrictions on choice that order imposes."

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 Lisa
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 December 5, 2021
 [3.4] I am grateful to this book for bringing Ai Weiwei's art and activism to my attention. After reading it, I browsed through photos of his many installations, creations and "destructions". I also listened to a fascinating podcast of him talking about his art and feelings about China. Next, I plan on watching some of his documentaries.

 Unfortunately, his writing is devoid of the passion found in his art. I found the book to be a fairly dry reportage of his life, without much introspection or emotion. He is very reticent about his personal life. The beginning of the book, which focuses on his childhood, banished with his poet father to a remote outpost called Little Siberia, is the most compelling.
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 Elyse Walters
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 January 2, 2022
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 I appreciated learning about Ai Weiwei ….(born in 1957 in Beijing), the Chinese contemporary artist…
 …. Architect, activist, sound producer, film directors, visual artist….
 I honesty never knew a thing about him until this book….
 his artwork, his artistic influences, his childhood in exile with his father — the son of a poet - history about his father - [a year in Paris] -
 the cultural revolution before- during - and after -
 The political history —
 Ai’s social activism - his nitty-gritty family background stories — his marriages — his son - his career development- living in New York - his return to China - imprisonment- and his reflections on freedom.

 Ai Weiwei is a humanitarian powerhouse….
 …. a global citizen, Artist and thinker!!

 I read up more on Wikipedia—
 (fabulous artwork; sculptural installations, architectural projects, photographs, and videos)….
 and enjoyed a YouTube interview.

 Although the audiobook reader - for ‘this’ book:
 “1000 Years of Joy and Sorrows”, was excellent …
 at times ‘listening’ to it became daunting — for one reason or another - and I started to become indifferent…
 That said….it got me thinking about the years in Chinese cultural and political history- kidnappings- refugees- ‘sorrow & joy’ combinations in any one man’s lifetime …
 And the discovery of some magnificent artwork.

 Today… Ai Weiwei lives in Portugal. He Maintains a base in Cambridge, Rivers son attends school and a studio in Berlin. He says she will stay in Portugal long-term “unless something happens”.







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 Sahitya
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 December 9, 2021
 I love going to museums but I’m not very knowledgeable about art, and particularly ignorant about modern art. So, when I first saw this memoir, I was intrigued because I wanted to know more about this person’s story but I didn’t know who he was. However, I was eager to get to know him.

 This is a memoir I can’t review. Written for his son, Ai Weiwei documents both his father’s and his life in this book and as much as it’s about these two people, it’s also about living under an authoritarian regime which doesn’t believe in freedom of expression. And in such a place, even the existence of the father-son duo and many other such artist activists is a spark that might ignite a fire one day. Their life story might feel bleak, especially his father’s life who was wrongfully convicted and exiled for years on end during the cultural revolution, but this is also the story of a family which resiliently survived the oppression and never let go of their artistic expression or principles.

 It’s both a sad and awe inspiring memoir and I felt small and insignificant after getting to know such artists. The writing itself may feel detached and dry but I think it reflects the author’s own feelings about his life and purpose. But all the art interspersed within the text is fascinating and I can’t wait to read up more about his installations as well as about his father’s poetry.
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 Ben Rogers
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 November 25, 2021
 First off, let me say how much I like Ai's work. Very provocative and thought provoking pieces.

 Now, for the book.

 This was a good read. An interesting memoir and had some touching moments.

 That being said, it was not as shocking or activist as I thought it was going to be.

 Still a great memoir.

 Some pretty fascinating and eye opening moments too.

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 Susan
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 August 7, 2021
 Outspoken artist and international human-rights icon Ai Weiwei here chillingly documents--originally as a record for his young son, and subsequently for all the rest of us--the brutal life of privation and repression he experienced growing into manhood in remote China before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution as the son of a prominent poet, one of many thousands of wrongfully imprisoned political prisoners. Years later, when he himself is taken into custody for 81 angst-ridden days by Chinese authorities who do not respect his provocative politically-charged public art and social media posts, Ai feels a renewed closeness with his now-deceased father: both men of principle, courage, and conviction under extreme and protracted pressure. Throughout his life, Ai has sacrificed almost every creature comfort and stability in pursuit of his artistic freedom (and the right of others to enjoy the same) against overwhelming odds, enduring a fallen-apart marriage, an art studio bulldozed before his eyes, hostile 24/7 surveillance by Chinese police and state, and much more. Through it all, his wit, his optimism, and his playful vision of art as meaningful expression remain unstoppable. Luckily for us, after a nail-biting exit from his native land, Ai is today writing and creating his thought-provoking art installations from a new home, safe in Europe. As a bonus, Ai's memoir is replete with his own sketches of scenes and artworks which played a pivotal role throughout his development as artist and human-rights advocate. Thought-provoking, meaningful, very deftly told.
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 Shelby Thompson
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 October 28, 2021
 This is the type of book I can see Timothée Chalamet (NYU Chalemet, not Dune Chalemet. People can change) reading on the subway while making little notes in the margins about the necessity of sacrificing ones’ self for artistic expression, while literally attending NYU. The bastion of self-expression.

 To be fair, Al Weiwei was constructing his artistic identity in communist China, not the Ivy Towers of the American education system, but his writing contains the same thinly-veiled elitism. Which sucks, because his writing is beautiful. His memoir tracks the parallel events of his father’s life (a famous Chinese poet who was exiled to a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution), and his own clashes with authority, which culminated in his 3-month detention in 2011. The two different stories are supposed to highlight how the memory of government oppression in China has continued ripple effects across generations. Instead, I found myself comparing the two stories, and found that the story of his father held far more emotion and self-awareness than that of his own.

 Weiwei writes in a detached style, which works when he’s writing about a man who withheld many of his emotions and troubled thoughts from his family, and instead poured them into his devotion to his art and his country. But when talking about his own life, I got the sense that he’s never really examined his personal choices or the impact that he has had on the people around them. He briefly mentions friends, colleagues, lovers, and then rushes on from them (both figuratively and literally. Both Weiwei and his father seem to have played fast and loose with romantic fidelity). He is so filled with scorn for his fellow country-men and their sheep-like tendencies, but doesn’t question the fact that both he and his father were able to fuel much of their artistic livelihoods through loans from their family and the unwavering financial and domestic support of their wives and international friends.

 This could be a cool book if it were trimmed down and focused in more on the history of China’s oppression of the arts – if that sounds interesting to you, then you can just read the first half of the book which focuses on his father, and skip the rest.
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 Rebecca Rubenstein
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 November 24, 2021
 My recent deep dive of Ai Wei Wei includes this riveting memoir, his Rapture show in Lisbon, and his many documentaries, some by him and some about him. I know I’m not alone when I say Ai Wei Wei is one of the most important artists / activists of our time, and I deeply appreciate his and his family’s sacrifices that make this world a better place.
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 Kea4
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 October 17, 2021
 You might know him for creating the “Bird’s Nest” which is the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

 As for this book talking about life in the camps in China was very eye-opening and interesting. But I found this book did bounce around a little too much. So much so I could not get a handle on his entire family. It kept going back and forth between him and his father.

 Sadly most editors now seem to turn a blind eye to these last two issues in the book:

 Explaining how Chairman Mao would talk/write to his followers is fine but dumbing down your audience and trying to compare this to Trump’s late-night tweets is just stupid and an insult to the reader. (page 11)

 Also on page 366, the author claims that in most European countries that migrants receive no assistance is incorrect.

 If I have two items already that are false how can I take the rest of the book seriously?

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 Natalia
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 February 13, 2022
 It was an impressive journey to Ai Weiwei's family history that is tightly connected to the history of China. Some parts were heartbreaking, some were immensely insightful in providing the artist's view on his sources of inspiration.
 As for me, I've learnt a lot about contemporary China, about the impact of a totalitarian state on people's life. I wish Ai Weiwei had paid more attention to his own work, as he only touches upon main pieces, these bits are amazing and could be not so brief.
 I can't recommend this book enough, I think it's interesting not only to those who enjoy art, but to everyone who wants to understand China or get inspiration from Ai Weiwei's courage and wisdom.
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 Brett
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 November 7, 2021
 It was a great choice for a 100th book this year. Short history of the recent Century in China plus the personal carrer choices of named artist. I knew his work as a documentarian, but the rest not so much. Definitely recommend!!!!
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 Alva Markelius
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 February 7, 2022
 I’m speechless, such an incredible story and wonderful storyteller. I can only say read it!!
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 Brian Yu
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 November 27, 2021
 -While a lot of other reviews touched on Ai Wei Wei's time in exile with his father, I don't agree with it being the most compelling part of the book - we get it shovelling poo sucks and shovelling frozen poo sucks even more
 -His first hand accounts of living as an immigrant, his experience in solitary confinement, and his shrewd ways of creating art while fighting injustice made for a very enjoyable, varied read
 -I find it very touching that this book came about after reflection on his strained relationship with his own father. Further complicated by state censorship of both individuals, the act of writing a well researched memoir of both their hardships/experiences for his son's understanding is powerful form of reconciliation
 -Getting a personal explanation on the thought processes behind the development/evolution of his installations is very enlightening - but perhaps some of the intrigue/mystery/magic behind contemporary art is lost when attributed to storylines and reason. The little drawings and his crass, tongue in cheek sense of humour was also really great (grass mud horse lol)
 -Honestly astonishing how Ai Lao is so poignant at the age of like 10... take a look at this list of interview questions he posed: https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/...
 -Prob my fave book of 2021, would love to see his next exhibition or see some of his documentaries, I should brush up on my mando lol
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 Patricia
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 Ai Weiwei’s life is so fascinating & I knew very little about him before reading this! Thinking about art, democracy, elitism, and fatherhood! BTG #2
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 William Pike
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 December 2, 2021
 A fascinating portrait of an artist that illuminates China's repressive history over the last 80 years. Ai Weiwei's father was a famous poet (friend of Neruda etc.) but was also at Yunnan with the Red Army in the 1940s and knew Mao Tse-Tung, Xi Jinping's father, Chou Enlai, and many other prominent figures. Despite that he was sent into exile as a 'rightist' during the Cultural Revolution because he insisted on artistic freedom of expression rather than simply being a 'worker artist'. So Ai Weiwei was some kind of 'princeling'. This book is more about Ai Weiwei's social activism rather than his art, although he has illustrated it with many lovely line drawings. Inspired by Act Up and other activists in New York where he lived in the early 1990's (making money drawing portraits in Times Square), he went back to China and became a situationist-type radical. The state did not know how to handle him because his activism was not obviously directed against the state, rather it sought to ridicule repression and make fun of it. When he was under surveillance, he hung red lanterns under every CCTV camera in his street. The first half of the book is about his father's exile during the Cultural Revolution, which Ai Weiwei spent with him. The second half depicts his long struggle with the Chinese state and his secret detention and daily interrogation.
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 Seb Swann
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 December 4, 2021
 “Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in our lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space.”

 If you like memoirs about dissident artists; Ai Weiwei’s story is powerful, his wisdom is thought-provoking and resolute, and his voice is deeply needed, especially at a time when authoritarianism is on the rise around the world and advocates for the disenfranchised, the displaced, and the persecuted are needed most.
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 Olivia
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 July 18, 2022
 I really admire Ai Weiwei’s art and activism, so it’s disappointing I can’t recommend his memoir.

 The first 30-40% of the book is about his life of his father Ai Qing. His father is a very famous Chinese poet and I understand sharing details about your parents’ lives to provide context for your own, but I wasn’t expecting him to dedicate such a huge portion of the book to him.

 His writing style is quite dry and is mostly concerned with explaining a timeline of events or minute details of a scene, with very little insight to his thoughts and feelings during formative and fascinating parts of his life. The day that he's released after the Chinese government detained him for 81 days, the most emotion we get from him is: “I was looking forward to seeing Lu Qing and Ai Lao,” his wife and son. I feel like I didn’t learn much at all about how he thinks about art or how he processed events in his life. However, his experiences do provide a very clear and maddening view into how unjustly the Chinese government treats people who criticize the CCP, and made me admire how he's conducted himself and managed to still make such a big impact while being censored at every turn.
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 Aubrey
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 Once upon a time, I thought Ai Weiwei was the coolest person ever. I remember tracking the Bird's Nest at the 2008 Olympics, attending a transpacific workshop where Ai responded to translated questions while broadcasted on a projector screen, adding a compilation of his blog posts to my TBR, and otherwise becoming intimately familiar with the name and the mystique attached but not really, until now, devoting some time to figuring out who he actually is. Now, reading this, a triptych memoir that frames Ai's life between the ancestry that is his father and the progeny that is his son, I found both more and less than I had expected to. It's certainly Ai's life, and it certainly presents a more complicated picture than I imagine the typical US WASP has of the China that raised Ai's father and sent Ai's son on his way, both the good and the ill. The fact of the matter, though, is that I operate from behind a US-lens that I am constantly trying to deconstruct, and the fact that my country continues to whip itself into a Sinophobic frenzy means I have to notice every time Ai criticizes China and falls silent in regards to the US, and there was enough inconsistency in certain key respects that words such as "democracy" were a bit too cherry-picked by this work's conclusion. Still, I may shove my rating over the other side of the half star divide, for I would say that this piece does a much better job at what it does than much else on the US market, and that may convince me to adjust my judgment by the time this review is through.

 If you started reading this book with your focus firmly set on Ai Weiwei, you would be forgiven for wondering whether you were reading the right book, considering how much time the first section spends drawing up a portrait of Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing: Chinese poet, Parisian student, anti-nationalist, sometimes social philanderer and target under the Anti-Rightest Movement and Cultural Revolution. Personally, I was rather pleased with the structure, as Ai didn't mince his efforts to flesh out the history of both his father and his country, delving into the Occidental imperialism that would radicalize both Chinese nationalist and Chinese communist (which can be explored in much greater detail in Mishra's From the Ruins of Empire ). This complicated what could have otherwise been yet another 'China bad, US good!' slogan that so many Chinese works that are permitted in the Anglo sphere are reduced to, thus ultimately strengthening Ai's entire narrative. Indeed, it is these complications that were my bread and butter, noteworthy ones including Ai's sympathetic relationships with many of the "grunts" who had played an unwilling roll in his 81-day detention. Still, I have to wonder at an incident where, after taking photos of cops beating protestors in the streets, Ai's first instinct was to run the film straight to the New York Times, presented with little of the critical commentary that tends to suffuse his commentary on other similarly charged interactions between individual and hegemonic media. True, Ai Weiwei was young back then, but some acknowledgement of the similarities between building his reputation off of giving the US status quo power over mainstream representation of dissident social discourse and government lackeys earning their pay by tailing Ai would have signified a consistent level of critique that I could get behind. In light of that, Ai's closing commentary on the relationship between artistry, freedom of speech, and the powers that be wasn't as airtight as it could have been, so while I'm not going judge his actions, I'm also not going to jive with his giving the US a relative free pass. I appreciate Ai's commitment to facing off with China's authoritarianism; all I ask is a little consistency beyond the borders.

 I've reached the close of my review, and I haven't decided to tip my rating over to the four star side of things. I also haven't decided to delete Ai Weiwei's Blog from my TBR, as while it has languished unread and unacquired since 2013, I'm still curious about what material wasn't backed up by the Internet Archive (threatened by its own share of greedy and puerile antagonists) after the blog was taken down by the Chinese government in 2009. My librarian powers, considerably developed by nine months of collection development, shows me that that particular work is present in the collections of many an academic library, including the more local ones. So, theoretically, I might be able to wrangle a copy in the near future if I really put my mind to it, and knowing that was sufficient for me to keep on with this Ai Weiwei engagement of mine, at least for one more book. Life has taught many before me the woes of holding up someone as idol and will teach many more long after my bones have been ground to dust, but it has also given me the ability to hold many true realities in the palm of my hand and not throw out the baby with the bathwater on any of them. It is true that Ai Weiwei faces oppression under the current Chinese government, but it is also true that the bigoted imperialism of the current US government has a history of profiting from racist fearmongering about said oppressions, always while hiding behind a selected coterie of public facing speakers as a show of diverse authenticity. As such, I think news about Ai and his doings is always going to draw my eye, one way or another. But I have my own fights to conduct in my own homeland, and just as I trust him to know what's best in his own country, I trust him to not interfere with me in mine.
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 Jessica Paul
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 October 18, 2021
 DNF - I gave this a good go and gave up at about 40% through the book. I found this very difficult to read due to a combination of factors; the telling is not chronological - there are points when you jump back and forward between Ai Weiwei being a small boy to before he was born making it difficult to follow. The translation didn’t lend itself to immersive reading and I found myself tripping over and rereading sentences. Ai Weiwei and his family suffered immensely and I just wasn't in the right place to read about starvation, death and destruction. I may come back to it, but it's unlikely. If you did want to learn more about modern Chinese history I’d recommend Wild Swans by Jung Chang which is one of my very few five star reads.
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 Ian
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 November 16, 2021
 Ai Weiwei is one of the more important thinkers of the present. There are moments when the translation feels somewhat poor but the message holds. Wonderful insights into his mind and way of processing the world.
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 Lynn
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 July 9, 2022
 This has so many five-star ratings and I'm not I'm not sure why. It was a lot more dull than I expected it to be. And I feel like I need to apologize to every member of my book club for picking this book as this month's book
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 August 18, 2021
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 Andrew
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 November 7, 2021
 BBC Radio Book of the Week: really interesting information on a troubled life and time.
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 LAPL Reads
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 July 18, 2022
 Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous, and infamous, internationally known artists. His artistic style ranges from representational to pushing boundaries all over the place. Not only in his visual work has he stretched and pushed, but in his thoughts, ideas and comments about his native country and its lack of expressive freedom; its authoritarian disregard for humanity and oppression of different types of people within its own borders, as well as supporting various types of repression throughout the world. This drive to express, and lack of concern for his own safety, landed Ai Weiwei in prison and under torture. It might be part of his family’s tradition, in that his father Ai Qing, once a celebrated poet and friend to Mao, was sent to a horrific labor camp, where Ai Weiwei grew up--in exile in his own country. Born in 1957, it was a time according to Ai Weiwei of the "New China, and, "In satisfying the demands of the new order, the Chinese people suffered a withering of spiritual life and lost the ability to tell things as they had truly occurred." His father was among those who dared not speak about what had taken place, for fear of further punishment and mistreatment.

 On April 3, 2011, as Ai Weiwei was about to fly out of Beijing's Capital Airport, " ... a swarm of plainclothes police descended on me, and for the next eighty-one days I disappeared into a black hole." It gave him time to reflect about his father, and part of his country's history that was blocked out of existence, and fear silenced many of its citizens, who were unable to talk about what had taken place and how they had been treated. Looking back at his own history, it is multifaceted. After Mao’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, the family returned to Beijing, where Ai Weiwei studied art and animation. From 1980 to 1983, he was allowed to leave China and study in the United States, which was a great awakening for him, being able to learn about all types of artists, art forms and freedom of expression. In 1993 he returned to China because his father was ill, but the artist continued expanding his artistic forms of expression, until it was more than the Chinese government could bear, and he was arrested and his passport was confiscated. In 2015 his passport was returned to him and he moved to Berlin; later to England, and now lives in Portugal.

 The title of the book is part of a poem written by his father, Ai Qing. The book is a memoir about his father; about himself; about his country; about the necessity for freedom of expression everywhere in the world. Many of Ai Weiwei's international political positions are controversial, but living in the West has made it possible for him to express those ideas. If there is any group of people who seek freedom of expression, it is artists, and as one of those artists this man does not veer off course. For someone who has been a witness to his family being tormented, punished and exiled, and having survived similar treatment, Ai Weiwei takes the long view and has a spiritual patience about repression and about his art. Despite living in relative freedom, he knows that because of his notoriety, there are forces within China that will not allow him to live completely free. He knows that he is still a hunted man by those who fear what this one man might say or do.

 Throughout the book, as well as the book jacket, there are illustrations by Ai Weiwei, with additional photographs of the artist, his family and his work.

 Reviewed by Sheryn Morris, Librarian, Literature & Fiction
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 Patricia
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 The quote I remember most came at the end and for me summed up Ai Weiwei's life and work: "Art is the antidote to fear" (p. 347). It's seldom that one reads a book that completely reverses one's former opinions or judgments about an individual, but this book was such an experience. I realize now that my former erroneous impressions came solely from a lack of curiosity and knowledge and I sorely regret that I once considered Ai Weiwei just another contemporary [Chinese] artist out for personal/financial gain. That couldn't have been farther from the truth.

 From the first few pages, I was spellbound by the story of Ai Weiwei's life, which he begins with the story of his father--a highly respected poet who suffered throughout his life for his beliefs and poetry. His father was given the name Ai Haicheng (b. March 27, 1910 in Zhejiang Province), born into a pre-Mao China at a time of great political and national chaos as it transitioned from the Qing Dynasty into an unknown future. He trained at Hangzhou's National Art Academy but secured permission to study abroad in Paris in the late 1920s, the city George Orwell described then as a "moveable feast". Later in life, he would be known as Ai Qing. His son, Ai Weiwei, would later follow, unknowingly at first, in his father's footsteps--moving abroad (but to New York, not Paris), eventually returning 'home' to China to be branded an enemy of the 'new' China. Today, after arrest, imprisonment and considerable harassments, he lives abroad.

 Ai Weiwei grew up with his father as they were moved from desolate post to post during the 40s and 50s, and it isn't until the end of his autobiography and father's biography, that we find the reason for the writing of this volume: "That night, as the hours stretched out ahead of me, I thought of my father, and I realized just how incomplete my understanding of him was... My father had endured a harsher one, when so many people paid with their lives for the words they uttered. I had never asked him what he was thinking, never wondered what the world was like for him as he looked at it through his one good eye. I felt a deep pang of regret at the unbridgeable gap between him and me. Then and there, the idea of writing this book came to me, for I did not want [my son] to suffer the same regret" (p. 315).

 If you have seen or heard of Ai Weiwei's exhibitions and pieces, without reading or hearing where they sprang from in his heart, you will not understand his art, as I did not for many years. As many others interested in China, we sometimes wear blinders to that which makes us uncomfortable, and there is much in today's China that should make those of us who live in more open and democratic societies, more than uncomfortable. The word I want to write is 'outraged'. All humanity should feel fortunate to have those brave enough to express their outrage (through their words, or votes, or acts of protest, or art) against regimes who claim to be 'for the people' but who do not understand what makes humans 'human'. "Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space" (p. 369). For Ai Weiwei, art was the antidote.

 For those who do not consider Ai Weiwei's documentaries and installations 'art', I would urge you to be open to a re-boot.
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 July 10, 2022
 Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader .

 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows is a memoir by Ai Weiwei of the sociopolitical changes in the 20th century in China and of his own place in the larger picture as an artist, philosopher, and activist. Released 2nd Nov 2021 by Penguin Random House on their Crown Publishing imprint, it's 400 pages and is available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats. Paperback format due out in 4th quarter 2022. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately it makes it much easier to find particular text in a search.

 This is an engaging and honest memoir of the author's life, part of which he spent in exile as a child with his father, a poet of renown. The philosophy with which he was surrounded and the privation of his early life informed much of his personality and later artistic expression. The writing is intelligent and open and there are glimpses of genuine wit and humor. I enjoyed his reminiscences very much; the recollections of culture shock and confusion as a young Chinese student in America were touching and honestly told.

 The book is enhanced throughout with glimpses into his sketchbooks and drawings. They add a lot of depth to the read. The translation work is flawlessly provided by Dr. Allan Barr . It scans very well and doesn't read in the English edition as though it were translated, which is obviously the ideal.

 Four and a half stars. This would be a superlative choice for public library acquisition as well as recommended for readers of memoir and biography.

 Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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 James Klagge
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 March 20, 2022
 I read this because I had heard of the author and because I know next to nothing about China. It seemed a good place to start. When I was in 7th grade I remember reading the cover story in Time Magazine about the Cultural Revolution. (I see there was such a cover on January 13, 1967.) That's about it!
 This memoir recounts much from the life of the author's father (the '30's through the '60's) through about 6 years ago, when the author emigrated. Although it offers a certain perspective (both author and his father were dissenters who spent much time being repressed/persecuted), I felt like I learned a lot.
 There is a long chapter recounting 81 days when the author was disappeared and held for daily questioning and round-the-clock observation. It could have been written by Kafka--scenes from The Trial --it was so absurd. The book closes with the author's reflections about art and free speech in the oppressive society. This reminded me very much of the dissenting Czech writers of the Communist era.
 The author's experience with and accounts of government officials and soldiers made them seem strikingly incompetent and uncaring and mechanical--as though really no one believes in the system but virtually everyone goes along with it anyway. It sounds hopeless. The author resisted as much as he could until 2015, when he emigrated with official permission. It doesn't sound like he'll be going back.
 Worth reading.
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 catinca.ciornei
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 July 8, 2022
 The book was amazing because the subject is so - it describes Ai Weiwei and his father's lives, enmeshed with China's political history from 1910 until just now, 2015. Ai Weiwei is an artist, but more so he is a political activist, a creative energetic intellect popping widely in a China no longer secluded from the rest of the world. The book is powerful because it offers a wide-ranging glance over China's recent past, just so we can glimmer its painful horrific violent cauldron; empires fell, people fought, killed and were killed in great numbers, Japan invaded, the Western powers were neglectful or worst yet, conceited, and through it all artists forged on. The work is a bit hopeless - how can one fight against hundreds and hundreds of years of pain and pressure; but it also offers wonderful hope: that one man's actions are always and anyplace worthwhile, that keeping your straight line will ultimately force society to notice you and realign to you. Ai Weiwei seems to never once think that his efforts are in vain; maybe it is ego, maybe it is an unrelenting sense of history, but he keeps the flame alive for all.
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 Katya Bediukh
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 February 14, 2023
 Ай Вейвей – один з найвизначніших митців сучасності. У своїй творчості (як Ай і сам про себе пише) він завжди балансує між трьома ідентичностями – митцем, громадянином та активістом. Незважаючи на довготривалу ві��сутність комфорту, перебування в ув’язненні, постійне переслідування китайської поліції та держави, Ай Вейвей зберігає у собі оптимізм та продовжує слідувати своїм цінностями.

 Нижче наведу декілька цитат, які стали для мене ключовими для розуміння особистості митця та його творчості.

 «Свобода береться з жертв, на які ти йдеш, щоб її здобути. Обмеження беруться лише зі страху в серці, а протиотрута страху — мистецтво»

 «Правами, які я намагався захистити, повинні користуватись всі, а негативні наслідки повинен терпіти тільки я сам. Це розуміння дає мені моральну силу.»

 «Самовираження - важлива складова життя людини. Без звуків людських голосів, без тепла й кольорів у нашому житті, без уважних поглядів Земля - лише бездушна каменюка, зависла в космосі.»

 4/5, бо текст здався сухуватим та відстороненим.
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 an epic! can’t sum this reading experience up any better than this quote from edward snowden:

 "This is the rarest sort of memoir, rising above the arc of history to grasp at the limits of the soul. 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.”
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776 reviews1,154 followers     December 29, 2021    (Andy Warhol &amp; Ai Weiwei Exhibition-35, photo by Russell Charters)  "With art I opened up a space that was new to me, an abandoned space infested with weeds, in wild and desolate ruin.... it offered the prospect of self-redemption and a path toward detachment and escape."  In 2016, my partner and I visited the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. There was an exhibition by the artist Ai Weiwei, someone I hadn't previously heard of. I was captivated by his work and wanted to know more about him. I read a couple books and watched some of his documentaries. The more I learned the more intrigued -and impressed- I became. He quickly became my favourite living artist.  Ai Weiwei's early years were spent in "Little Siberia", where his poet father had been sent by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution. He was sentenced to hard labor and his son was punished along with him. He endured many hardships and in spite of, or because of, that Ai Weiwei became an activist, using his art to speak for the rights of people. His courage and compassion are tantamount to his artistic genius.   100 Years of Joys and Sorrows is his memoir, beginning with his early life in that hard labor camp. The first part of the book felt disjointed and detached, as though he were writing about someone and something that was foreign to him. He writes, "I felt no attachment to my memories. My memories didn’t belong to me" and that is apparent.  The little he wrote about himself and his early years is entwined with details of his father's life. It jumped around... he would write a tiny bit about his child self and I got the sense it was too uncomfortable, perhaps too painful, for him to write about so he would quickly shift to writing about his father instead. However, after the first one hundred pages or so, this all changed and I could feel the person writing, could feel that he felt what he was writing. And I was enthralled. I loved learning more about his life and the inspiration behind many of his works. No matter how the Chinese government tries to suppress him, Ai Weiwei never fails to speak up and to use his work to speak for those who are unable to speak for themselves. He was under constant surveillance, kept in a secret prison for a time, was under house arrest for five years, and now lives in exile in Portugal. But no matter their efforts, the Chinese government was unable to silence him.  100 Years of Joys and Sorrows is a memoir worth reading, and Ai Weiwei is a man worth admiring and emulating. If you aren't familiar with his work, I urge you to Google him.... and read this wonderful book. It is powerful and interesting, a unique blend of historical fact, memoir, and philosophical thoughts.     "I am no admirer of order—whether order appears in Eastern or Western guise, it always triggers suspicion in me. I dislike the constraints on human nature and the restrictions on choice that order imposes."        art asian-authors memoir-biography               1,429 reviews543 followers     December 5, 2021   [3.4] I am grateful to this book for bringing Ai Weiwei's art and activism to my attention. After reading it, I browsed through photos of his many installations, creations and "destructions". I also listened to a fascinating podcast of him talking about his art and feelings about China. Next, I plan on watching some of his documentaries. Unfortunately, his writing is devoid of the passion found in his art. I found the book to be a fairly dry reportage of his life, without much introspection or emotion. He is very reticent about his personal life. The beginning of the book, which focuses on his childhood, banished with his poet father to a remote outpost called Little Siberia, is the most compelling.                   3,944 reviews35.5k followers     January 2, 2022   Audiobook…read by David Shih ….13 hours and 7 minutes I appreciated learning about Ai Weiwei ….(born in 1957 in Beijing), the Chinese contemporary artist……. Architect, activist, sound producer, film directors, visual artist….I honesty never knew a thing about him until this book….his artwork, his artistic influences, his childhood in exile with his father — the son of a poet - history about his father - [a year in Paris] - the cultural revolution before- during - and after - The political history —Ai’s social activism - his nitty-gritty family background stories — his marriages — his son - his career development- living in New York - his return to China - imprisonment- and his reflections on freedom. Ai Weiwei is a humanitarian powerhouse…. …. a global citizen, Artist and thinker!! I read up more on Wikipedia—(fabulous artwork; sculptural installations, architectural projects, photographs, and videos)….and enjoyed a YouTube interview.  Although the audiobook reader - for ‘this’ book:“1000 Years of Joy and Sorrows”, was excellent …at times ‘listening’ to it became daunting — for one reason or another - and I started to become indifferent…That said….it got me thinking about the years in Chinese cultural and political history- kidnappings- refugees- ‘sorrow &amp; joy’ combinations in any one man’s lifetime …And the discovery of some magnificent artwork.  Today… Ai Weiwei lives in Portugal. He Maintains a base in Cambridge, Rivers son attends school and a studio in Berlin. He says she will stay in Portugal long-term “unless something happens”.      audiobook               1,026 reviews203 followers     December 9, 2021   I love going to museums but I’m not very knowledgeable about art, and particularly ignorant about modern art. So, when I first saw this memoir, I was intrigued because I wanted to know more about this person’s story but I didn’t know who he was. However, I was eager to get to know him. This is a memoir I can’t review. Written for his son, Ai Weiwei documents both his father’s and his life in this book and as much as it’s about these two people, it’s also about living under an authoritarian regime which doesn’t believe in freedom of expression. And in such a place, even the existence of the father-son duo and many other such artist activists is a spark that might ignite a fire one day. Their life story might feel bleak, especially his father’s life who was wrongfully convicted and exiled for years on end during the cultural revolution, but this is also the story of a family which resiliently survived the oppression and never let go of their artistic expression or principles. It’s both a sad and awe inspiring memoir and I felt small and insignificant after getting to know such artists. The writing itself may feel detached and dry but I think it reflects the author’s own feelings about his life and purpose. But all the art interspersed within the text is fascinating and I can’t wait to read up more about his installations as well as about his father’s poetry.      2021-read 5-star non-fiction               2,196 reviews136 followers     November 25, 2021   First off, let me say how much I like Ai's work. Very provocative and thought provoking pieces. Now, for the book.  This was a good read. An interesting memoir and had some touching moments.  That being said, it was not as shocking or activist as I thought it was going to be.  Still a great memoir.  Some pretty fascinating and eye opening moments too.  3.8/5     activism art autobiography           August 7, 2021   Outspoken artist and international human-rights icon Ai Weiwei here chillingly documents--originally as a record for his young son, and subsequently for all the rest of us--the brutal life of privation and repression he experienced growing into manhood in remote China before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution as the son of a prominent poet, one of many thousands of wrongfully imprisoned political prisoners. Years later, when he himself is taken into custody for 81 angst-ridden days by Chinese authorities who do not respect his provocative politically-charged public art and social media posts, Ai feels a renewed closeness with his now-deceased father: both men of principle, courage, and conviction under extreme and protracted pressure. Throughout his life, Ai has sacrificed almost every creature comfort and stability in pursuit of his artistic freedom (and the right of others to enjoy the same) against overwhelming odds, enduring a fallen-apart marriage, an art studio bulldozed before his eyes, hostile 24/7 surveillance by Chinese police and state, and much more. Through it all, his wit, his optimism, and his playful vision of art as meaningful expression remain unstoppable. Luckily for us, after a nail-biting exit from his native land, Ai is today writing and creating his thought-provoking art installations from a new home, safe in Europe. As a bonus, Ai's memoir is replete with his own sketches of scenes and artworks which played a pivotal role throughout his development as artist and human-rights advocate. Thought-provoking, meaningful, very deftly told.                   302 reviews2 followers     October 28, 2021   This is the type of book I can see Timothée Chalamet (NYU Chalemet, not Dune Chalemet. People can change) reading on the subway while making little notes in the margins about the necessity of sacrificing ones’ self for artistic expression, while literally attending NYU. The bastion of self-expression. To be fair, Al Weiwei was constructing his artistic identity in communist China, not the Ivy Towers of the American education system, but his writing contains the same thinly-veiled elitism. Which sucks, because his writing is beautiful. His memoir tracks the parallel events of his father’s life (a famous Chinese poet who was exiled to a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution), and his own clashes with authority, which culminated in his 3-month detention in 2011. The two different stories are supposed to highlight how the memory of government oppression in China has continued ripple effects across generations. Instead, I found myself comparing the two stories, and found that the story of his father held far more emotion and self-awareness than that of his own.  Weiwei writes in a detached style, which works when he’s writing about a man who withheld many of his emotions and troubled thoughts from his family, and instead poured them into his devotion to his art and his country. But when talking about his own life, I got the sense that he’s never really examined his personal choices or the impact that he has had on the people around them. He briefly mentions friends, colleagues, lovers, and then rushes on from them (both figuratively and literally. Both Weiwei and his father seem to have played fast and loose with romantic fidelity). He is so filled with scorn for his fellow country-men and their sheep-like tendencies, but doesn’t question the fact that both he and his father were able to fuel much of their artistic livelihoods through loans from their family and the unwavering financial and domestic support of their wives and international friends.  This could be a cool book if it were trimmed down and focused in more on the history of China’s oppression of the arts – if that sounds interesting to you, then you can just read the first half of the book which focuses on his father, and skip the rest.     arcs memoir-to-read               119 reviews4 followers     November 24, 2021   My recent deep dive of Ai Wei Wei includes this riveting memoir, his Rapture show in Lisbon, and his many documentaries, some by him and some about him. I know I’m not alone when I say Ai Wei Wei is one of the most important artists / activists of our time, and I deeply appreciate his and his family’s sacrifices that make this world a better place.              October 17, 2021   You might know him for creating the “Bird’s Nest” which is the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.As for this book talking about life in the camps in China was very eye-opening and interesting. But I found this book did bounce around a little too much. So much so I could not get a handle on his entire family. It kept going back and forth between him and his father. Sadly most editors now seem to turn a blind eye to these last two issues in the book: Explaining how Chairman Mao would talk/write to his followers is fine but dumbing down your audience and trying to compare this to Trump’s late-night tweets is just stupid and an insult to the reader. (page 11) Also on page 366, the author claims that in most European countries that migrants receive no assistance is incorrect. If I have two items already that are false how can I take the rest of the book seriously?  https://theworldisabookandiamitsreade...      done               268 reviews29 followers     February 13, 2022   It was an impressive journey to Ai Weiwei's family history that is tightly connected to the history of China. Some parts were heartbreaking, some were immensely insightful in providing the artist's view on his sources of inspiration. As for me, I've learnt a lot about contemporary China, about the impact of a totalitarian state on people's life. I wish Ai Weiwei had paid more attention to his own work, as he only touches upon main pieces, these bits are amazing and could be not so brief.I can't recommend this book enough, I think it's interesting not only to those who enjoy art, but to everyone who wants to understand China or get inspiration from Ai Weiwei's courage and wisdom.                  96 reviews1 follower     November 7, 2021   It was a great choice for a 100th book this year. Short history of the recent Century in China plus the personal carrer choices of named artist. I knew his work as a documentarian, but the rest not so much. Definitely recommend!!!!                  8 reviews1 follower     February 7, 2022   I’m speechless, such an incredible story and wonderful storyteller. I can only say read it!!               November 27, 2021   -While a lot of other reviews touched on Ai Wei Wei's time in exile with his father, I don't agree with it being the most compelling part of the book - we get it shovelling poo sucks and shovelling frozen poo sucks even more-His first hand accounts of living as an immigrant, his experience in solitary confinement, and his shrewd ways of creating art while fighting injustice made for a very enjoyable, varied read-I find it very touching that this book came about after reflection on his strained relationship with his own father. Further complicated by state censorship of both individuals, the act of writing a well researched memoir of both their hardships/experiences for his son's understanding is powerful form of reconciliation-Getting a personal explanation on the thought processes behind the development/evolution of his installations is very enlightening - but perhaps some of the intrigue/mystery/magic behind contemporary art is lost when attributed to storylines and reason. The little drawings and his crass, tongue in cheek sense of humour was also really great (grass mud horse lol)-Honestly astonishing how Ai Lao is so poignant at the age of like 10... take a look at this list of interview questions he posed: https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/... -Prob my fave book of 2021, would love to see his next exhibition or see some of his documentaries, I should brush up on my mando lol                  338 reviews3 followers     July 9, 2022   Ai Weiwei’s life is so fascinating &amp; I knew very little about him before reading this! Thinking about art, democracy, elitism, and fatherhood! BTG #2              December 2, 2021   A fascinating portrait of an artist that illuminates China's repressive history over the last 80 years. Ai Weiwei's father was a famous poet (friend of Neruda etc.) but was also at Yunnan with the Red Army in the 1940s and knew Mao Tse-Tung, Xi Jinping's father, Chou Enlai, and many other prominent figures. Despite that he was sent into exile as a 'rightist' during the Cultural Revolution because he insisted on artistic freedom of expression rather than simply being a 'worker artist'. So Ai Weiwei was some kind of 'princeling'. This book is more about Ai Weiwei's social activism rather than his art, although he has illustrated it with many lovely line drawings. Inspired by Act Up and other activists in New York where he lived in the early 1990's (making money drawing portraits in Times Square), he went back to China and became a situationist-type radical. The state did not know how to handle him because his activism was not obviously directed against the state, rather it sought to ridicule repression and make fun of it. When he was under surveillance, he hung red lanterns under every CCTV camera in his street. The first half of the book is about his father's exile during the Cultural Revolution, which Ai Weiwei spent with him. The second half depicts his long struggle with the Chinese state and his secret detention and daily interrogation.                  140 reviews4 followers     December 4, 2021   “Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in our lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space.”If you like memoirs about dissident artists; Ai Weiwei’s story is powerful, his wisdom is thought-provoking and resolute, and his voice is deeply needed, especially at a time when authoritarianism is on the rise around the world and advocates for the disenfranchised, the displaced, and the persecuted are needed most.                    74 reviews     July 18, 2022   I really admire Ai Weiwei’s art and activism, so it’s disappointing I can’t recommend his memoir.The first 30-40% of the book is about his life of his father Ai Qing. His father is a very famous Chinese poet and I understand sharing details about your parents’ lives to provide context for your own, but I wasn’t expecting him to dedicate such a huge portion of the book to him. His writing style is quite dry and is mostly concerned with explaining a timeline of events or minute details of a scene, with very little insight to his thoughts and feelings during formative and fascinating parts of his life. The day that he's released after the Chinese government detained him for 81 days, the most emotion we get from him is: “I was looking forward to seeing Lu Qing and Ai Lao,” his wife and son. I feel like I didn’t learn much at all about how he thinks about art or how he processed events in his life. However, his experiences do provide a very clear and maddening view into how unjustly the Chinese government treats people who criticize the CCP, and made me admire how he's conducted himself and managed to still make such a big impact while being censored at every turn.                   1,290 reviews735 followers     April 4, 2023   3.5/5Once upon a time, I thought Ai Weiwei was the coolest person ever. I remember tracking the Bird's Nest at the 2008 Olympics, attending a transpacific workshop where Ai responded to translated questions while broadcasted on a projector screen, adding a compilation of his blog posts to my TBR, and otherwise becoming intimately familiar with the name and the mystique attached but not really, until now, devoting some time to figuring out who he actually is. Now, reading this, a triptych memoir that frames Ai's life between the ancestry that is his father and the progeny that is his son, I found both more and less than I had expected to. It's certainly Ai's life, and it certainly presents a more complicated picture than I imagine the typical US WASP has of the China that raised Ai's father and sent Ai's son on his way, both the good and the ill. The fact of the matter, though, is that I operate from behind a US-lens that I am constantly trying to deconstruct, and the fact that my country continues to whip itself into a Sinophobic frenzy means I have to notice every time Ai criticizes China and falls silent in regards to the US, and there was enough inconsistency in certain key respects that words such as "democracy" were a bit too cherry-picked by this work's conclusion. Still, I may shove my rating over the other side of the half star divide, for I would say that this piece does a much better job at what it does than much else on the US market, and that may convince me to adjust my judgment by the time this review is through. If you started reading this book with your focus firmly set on Ai Weiwei, you would be forgiven for wondering whether you were reading the right book, considering how much time the first section spends drawing up a portrait of Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing: Chinese poet, Parisian student, anti-nationalist, sometimes social philanderer and target under the Anti-Rightest Movement and Cultural Revolution. Personally, I was rather pleased with the structure, as Ai didn't mince his efforts to flesh out the history of both his father and his country, delving into the Occidental imperialism that would radicalize both Chinese nationalist and Chinese communist (which can be explored in much greater detail in Mishra's From the Ruins of Empire). This complicated what could have otherwise been yet another 'China bad, US good!' slogan that so many Chinese works that are permitted in the Anglo sphere are reduced to, thus ultimately strengthening Ai's entire narrative. Indeed, it is these complications that were my bread and butter, noteworthy ones including Ai's sympathetic relationships with many of the "grunts" who had played an unwilling roll in his 81-day detention. Still, I have to wonder at an incident where, after taking photos of cops beating protestors in the streets, Ai's first instinct was to run the film straight to the New York Times, presented with little of the critical commentary that tends to suffuse his commentary on other similarly charged interactions between individual and hegemonic media. True, Ai Weiwei was young back then, but some acknowledgement of the similarities between building his reputation off of giving the US status quo power over mainstream representation of dissident social discourse and government lackeys earning their pay by tailing Ai would have signified a consistent level of critique that I could get behind. In light of that, Ai's closing commentary on the relationship between artistry, freedom of speech, and the powers that be wasn't as airtight as it could have been, so while I'm not going judge his actions, I'm also not going to jive with his giving the US a relative free pass. I appreciate Ai's commitment to facing off with China's authoritarianism; all I ask is a little consistency beyond the borders. I've reached the close of my review, and I haven't decided to tip my rating over to the four star side of things. I also haven't decided to delete Ai Weiwei's Blog from my TBR, as while it has languished unread and unacquired since 2013, I'm still curious about what material wasn't backed up by the Internet Archive (threatened by its own share of greedy and puerile antagonists) after the blog was taken down by the Chinese government in 2009. My librarian powers, considerably developed by nine months of collection development, shows me that that particular work is present in the collections of many an academic library, including the more local ones. So, theoretically, I might be able to wrangle a copy in the near future if I really put my mind to it, and knowing that was sufficient for me to keep on with this Ai Weiwei engagement of mine, at least for one more book. Life has taught many before me the woes of holding up someone as idol and will teach many more long after my bones have been ground to dust, but it has also given me the ability to hold many true realities in the palm of my hand and not throw out the baby with the bathwater on any of them. It is true that Ai Weiwei faces oppression under the current Chinese government, but it is also true that the bigoted imperialism of the current US government has a history of profiting from racist fearmongering about said oppressions, always while hiding behind a selected coterie of public facing speakers as a show of diverse authenticity. As such, I think news about Ai and his doings is always going to draw my eye, one way or another. But I have my own fights to conduct in my own homeland, and just as I trust him to know what's best in his own country, I trust him to not interfere with me in mine.     3-star antidote-think-twice-all antidote-translated               65 reviews     October 18, 2021   DNF - I gave this a good go and gave up at about 40% through the book. I found this very difficult to read due to a combination of factors; the telling is not chronological - there are points when you jump back and forward between Ai Weiwei being a small boy to before he was born making it difficult to follow. The translation didn’t lend itself to immersive reading and I found myself tripping over and rereading sentences. Ai Weiwei and his family suffered immensely and I just wasn't in the right place to read about starvation, death and destruction. I may come back to it, but it's unlikely. If you did want to learn more about modern Chinese history I’d recommend Wild Swans by Jung Chang which is one of my very few five star reads.                    5 reviews     November 16, 2021   Ai Weiwei is one of the more important thinkers of the present. There are moments when the translation feels somewhat poor but the message holds. Wonderful insights into his mind and way of processing the world.                  354 reviews4 followers     July 9, 2022   This has so many five-star ratings and I'm not I'm not sure why. It was a lot more dull than I expected it to be. And I feel like I need to apologize to every member of my book club for picking this book as this month's book                  227 reviews     November 7, 2021   BBC Radio Book of the Week: really interesting information on a troubled life and time.                  536 reviews164 followers     July 18, 2022   Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous, and infamous, internationally known artists. His artistic style ranges from representational to pushing boundaries all over the place. Not only in his visual work has he stretched and pushed, but in his thoughts, ideas and comments about his native country and its lack of expressive freedom; its authoritarian disregard for humanity and oppression of different types of people within its own borders, as well as supporting various types of repression throughout the world. This drive to express, and lack of concern for his own safety, landed Ai Weiwei in prison and under torture. It might be part of his family’s tradition, in that his father Ai Qing, once a celebrated poet and friend to Mao, was sent to a horrific labor camp, where Ai Weiwei grew up--in exile in his own country. Born in 1957, it was a time according to Ai Weiwei of the "New China, and, "In satisfying the demands of the new order, the Chinese people suffered a withering of spiritual life and lost the ability to tell things as they had truly occurred." His father was among those who dared not speak about what had taken place, for fear of further punishment and mistreatment.On April 3, 2011, as Ai Weiwei was about to fly out of Beijing's Capital Airport, " ... a swarm of plainclothes police descended on me, and for the next eighty-one days I disappeared into a black hole." It gave him time to reflect about his father, and part of his country's history that was blocked out of existence, and fear silenced many of its citizens, who were unable to talk about what had taken place and how they had been treated. Looking back at his own history, it is multifaceted. After Mao’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, the family returned to Beijing, where Ai Weiwei studied art and animation. From 1980 to 1983, he was allowed to leave China and study in the United States, which was a great awakening for him, being able to learn about all types of artists, art forms and freedom of expression. In 1993 he returned to China because his father was ill, but the artist continued expanding his artistic forms of expression, until it was more than the Chinese government could bear, and he was arrested and his passport was confiscated. In 2015 his passport was returned to him and he moved to Berlin; later to England, and now lives in Portugal.  The title of the book is part of a poem written by his father, Ai Qing. The book is a memoir about his father; about himself; about his country; about the necessity for freedom of expression everywhere in the world. Many of Ai Weiwei's international political positions are controversial, but living in the West has made it possible for him to express those ideas. If there is any group of people who seek freedom of expression, it is artists, and as one of those artists this man does not veer off course. For someone who has been a witness to his family being tormented, punished and exiled, and having survived similar treatment, Ai Weiwei takes the long view and has a spiritual patience about repression and about his art. Despite living in relative freedom, he knows that because of his notoriety, there are forces within China that will not allow him to live completely free. He knows that he is still a hunted man by those who fear what this one man might say or do.  Throughout the book, as well as the book jacket, there are illustrations by Ai Weiwei, with additional photographs of the artist, his family and his work. Reviewed by Sheryn Morris, Librarian, Literature &amp; Fiction                     Author  3 books102 followers     January 4, 2023   The quote I remember most came at the end and for me summed up Ai Weiwei's life and work: "Art is the antidote to fear" (p. 347). It's seldom that one reads a book that completely reverses one's former opinions or judgments about an individual, but this book was such an experience. I realize now that my former erroneous impressions came solely from a lack of curiosity and knowledge and I sorely regret that I once considered Ai Weiwei just another contemporary [Chinese] artist out for personal/financial gain. That couldn't have been farther from the truth. From the first few pages, I was spellbound by the story of Ai Weiwei's life, which he begins with the story of his father--a highly respected poet who suffered throughout his life for his beliefs and poetry. His father was given the name Ai Haicheng (b. March 27, 1910 in Zhejiang Province), born into a pre-Mao China at a time of great political and national chaos as it transitioned from the Qing Dynasty into an unknown future. He trained at Hangzhou's National Art Academy but secured permission to study abroad in Paris in the late 1920s, the city George Orwell described then as a "moveable feast". Later in life, he would be known as Ai Qing. His son, Ai Weiwei, would later follow, unknowingly at first, in his father's footsteps--moving abroad (but to New York, not Paris), eventually returning 'home' to China to be branded an enemy of the 'new' China. Today, after arrest, imprisonment and considerable harassments, he lives abroad.  Ai Weiwei grew up with his father as they were moved from desolate post to post during the 40s and 50s, and it isn't until the end of his autobiography and father's biography, that we find the reason for the writing of this volume: "That night, as the hours stretched out ahead of me, I thought of my father, and I realized just how incomplete my understanding of him was... My father had endured a harsher one, when so many people paid with their lives for the words they uttered. I had never asked him what he was thinking, never wondered what the world was like for him as he looked at it through his one good eye. I felt a deep pang of regret at the unbridgeable gap between him and me. Then and there, the idea of writing this book came to me, for I did not want [my son] to suffer the same regret" (p. 315).  If you have seen or heard of Ai Weiwei's exhibitions and pieces, without reading or hearing where they sprang from in his heart, you will not understand his art, as I did not for many years. As many others interested in China, we sometimes wear blinders to that which makes us uncomfortable, and there is much in today's China that should make those of us who live in more open and democratic societies, more than uncomfortable. The word I want to write is 'outraged'. All humanity should feel fortunate to have those brave enough to express their outrage (through their words, or votes, or acts of protest, or art) against regimes who claim to be 'for the people' but who do not understand what makes humans 'human'. "Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space" (p. 369). For Ai Weiwei, art was the antidote. For those who do not consider Ai Weiwei's documentaries and installations 'art', I would urge you to be open to a re-boot.      china-general chinese-painting chinese-poetry               3,432 reviews62 followers     July 10, 2022   Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader. 
 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
 is a memoir by Ai Weiwei of the sociopolitical changes in the 20th century in China and of his own place in the larger picture as an artist, philosopher, and activist. Released 2nd Nov 2021 by Penguin Random House on their Crown Publishing imprint, it's 400 pages and is available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats. Paperback format due out in 4th quarter 2022. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately it makes it much easier to find particular text in a search.  This is an engaging and honest memoir of the author's life, part of which he spent in exile as a child with his father, a poet of renown. The philosophy with which he was surrounded and the privation of his early life informed much of his personality and later artistic expression. The writing is intelligent and open and there are glimpses of genuine wit and humor. I enjoyed his reminiscences very much; the recollections of culture shock and confusion as a young Chinese student in America were touching and honestly told.  The book is enhanced throughout with glimpses into his sketchbooks and drawings. They add a lot of depth to the read. The translation work is flawlessly provided by Dr. Allan Barr. It scans very well and doesn't read in the English edition as though it were translated, which is obviously the ideal. Four and a half stars. This would be a superlative choice for public library acquisition as well as recommended for readers of memoir and biography.  Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.     netgalley               Author  14 books80 followers     March 20, 2022   I read this because I had heard of the author and because I know next to nothing about China. It seemed a good place to start. When I was in 7th grade I remember reading the cover story in Time Magazine about the Cultural Revolution. (I see there was such a cover on January 13, 1967.) That's about it! This memoir recounts much from the life of the author's father (the '30's through the '60's) through about 6 years ago, when the author emigrated. Although it offers a certain perspective (both author and his father were dissenters who spent much time being repressed/persecuted), I felt like I learned a lot. There is a long chapter recounting 81 days when the author was disappeared and held for daily questioning and round-the-clock observation. It could have been written by Kafka--scenes from The Trial--it was so absurd. The book closes with the author's reflections about art and free speech in the oppressive society. This reminded me very much of the dissenting Czech writers of the Communist era. The author's experience with and accounts of government officials and soldiers made them seem strikingly incompetent and uncaring and mechanical--as though really no one believes in the system but virtually everyone goes along with it anyway. It sounds hopeless. The author resisted as much as he could until 2015, when he emigrated with official permission. It doesn't sound like he'll be going back.Worth reading.    contemporary-issues history memoirs-autobio               196 reviews11 followers     July 8, 2022   The book was amazing because the subject is so - it describes Ai Weiwei and his father's lives, enmeshed with China's political history from 1910 until just now, 2015. Ai Weiwei is an artist, but more so he is a political activist, a creative energetic intellect popping widely in a China no longer secluded from the rest of the world. The book is powerful because it offers a wide-ranging glance over China's recent past, just so we can glimmer its painful horrific violent cauldron; empires fell, people fought, killed and were killed in great numbers, Japan invaded, the Western powers were neglectful or worst yet, conceited, and through it all artists forged on. The work is a bit hopeless - how can one fight against hundreds and hundreds of years of pain and pressure; but it also offers wonderful hope: that one man's actions are always and anyplace worthwhile, that keeping your straight line will ultimately force society to notice you and realign to you. Ai Weiwei seems to never once think that his efforts are in vain; maybe it is ego, maybe it is an unrelenting sense of history, but he keeps the flame alive for all.                   28 reviews7 followers     February 14, 2023   Ай Вейвей – один з найвизначніших митців сучасності. У своїй творчості (як Ай і сам про себе пише) він завжди балансує між трьома ідентичностями – митцем, громадянином та активістом. Незважаючи на довготривалу ві��сутність комфорту, перебування в ув’язненні, постійне переслідування китайської поліції та держави, Ай Вейвей зберігає у собі оптимізм та продовжує слідувати своїм цінностями. Нижче наведу декілька цитат, які стали для мене ключовими для розуміння особистості митця та його творчості.  «Свобода береться з жертв, на які ти йдеш, щоб її здобути. Обмеження беруться лише зі страху в серці, а протиотрута страху — мистецтво» «Правами, які я намагався захистити, повинні користуватись всі, а негативні наслідки повинен терпіти тільки я сам. Це розуміння дає мені моральну силу.» «Самовираження - важлива складова життя людини. Без звуків людських голосів, без тепла й кольорів у нашому житті, без уважних поглядів Земля - лише бездушна каменюка, зависла в космосі.»  4/5, бо текст здався сухуватим та відстороненим.                   74 reviews1 follower     February 20, 2023   4.75/5an epic! can’t sum this reading experience up any better than this quote from edward snowden: "This is the rarest sort of memoir, rising above the arc of history to grasp at the limits of the soul. 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.”
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
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