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Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

Moss, Dorothy
Lim, Nancy
Lippard, Lucy R.

Hardcover

Art HistoryAmerican Art - Asian-AmericanGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 0300257449
ISBN13: 9780300257441
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jun 29 2021
Pages: 224
Weight: 3.13
Height: 1.02 Width: 9.37 Depth: 11.18
Language: English

A major survey of contemporary artist Hung Liu, whose layered portraits explore history and memory through the stories of marginalized figures

Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands presents the stunning work of this contemporary Chinese American artist. Liu (1948-2021) blends painting and photography to offer new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often working from photographs, she uses portraiture to elevate overlooked subjects, amplifying the stories of those who have historically been invisible or unheard. This richly illustrated book examines six decades of Liu's painting, photography, and drawing. Author Dorothy Moss illuminates the importance of family photographs in Liu's work; Nancy Lim examines the origins of Liu's artistic practice; Lucy R. Lippard explores issues of identity and multiculturalism; and Elizabeth Partridge focuses on Liu's recent series based on Dorothea Lange's Depression-era photographs. Philip Tinari, along with artists Amy Sherald and Carrie Mae Weems, among others, conveys Liu's impact on contemporary art. Having lived through war, political revolution, exile, and displacement, Liu paints a complex picture of an Asian Pacific American experience. Her portraits speak powerfully to those seeking a better life, in the United States and elsewhere.

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