Xu bing is a famous printmaker and an independent artist in China, born in Chongqing in the year 1955. in the year 1990, he was invaded to be an artist at University of Wisconsin, and remove to USA. since 1980s, he started to create a series of a sealed book as his artwork. he creates thousands of new Chinese words, by using pattern an symbol to express Chinese culture and the way of thinking. his famous artwork like A sealed book created from 1987 to 1991, he use both Latin and Chinese words to make 4000 new words. in the way of movable type printing, to produce as the Song edition books into volumes and tens of meters long volumes. no one can read it even Xu bing himself.
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徐冰的作品-天书,art.china,cn, art.china.cn/mjda/2009-06/22/content-2.htm, accessed on jan 10th,2019
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