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Cai Guo-Qiang : the ninth wave

by Cai Guo-Qiang

This publication examines the global environmental crisis through the lens of traditional Chinese aesthetics and philosophy. It explores themes of ecological degradation and the human longing to return to a primordial landscape.

Accession 9991 ISBN 9787549557363 Publisher Shanghai dang dai yi shu bo wu guan
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