Paperback. Condition: Good. Light shelfwear to cover, with just slightly bumped corners and bottom edge. Otherwise, clean and sound. Exhibition catalogue. 163 pgs. Seller Inventory # red3bMAN

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Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky

Cai Guo-Qiang

Published by Albion/Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, Ltd., 2004

ISBN 10: 1900829142 ISBN 13: 9781900829144

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good 12" x 10" softcover in stiff pictorial wraps featuring two Hiro Ihara photographs of kites in the sky and kites being painted on the sand to front and back covers, respectively, blue and white lettering on a yellow spine, some bumping to head and foot of spine, bumping to fore-edge tips front and back, light shelf rubbing, else clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. 164 pp. replete with full-color photographs, video stills, proposal drawings, construction drawings, and images of Cai Guo-Qiang's gunpowder drawings on wood-panel-backed paper both wall-mounted and freestanding. Includes an introductory essay by Sharmini Pereira,a Letter to the Children of Siwa and an anecdotal stories, "Tatsumi and His Ball" and "Feng shui Master and Sheik", by Cai Guo-Qiang, an essay by Jennifer Ma about the gunpowder explosion event, an essay by James Putman about the role of myth in the project (significance of shapes of man, eagle, and eye throughout antiquity), and lists of kite-flyers, workers, supervisors, production team members, patrons, and funders. From the artist's statement: "Man, Eagle, and Eye in the Sky, 2003. Realized at Siwa Oasis, Egyptian Sahara desert. In collaboration with over 600 schoolchildren from 40 schools throughout the governate of Marsha Matruh, November 11?14, 2003. Silk and bamboo handmade kites and paint. Commissioned by Siwa Art Project, Egypt." This project is associated with Cai Guo-Qiang's "Projects for Extraterrestrials", which consisted of using large fireworks and extensive trails of blazing gunpowder that span across landscapes and building surfaces. Seller Inventory # 01442

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky

Guo-Qiang, Cai and Sharmini Pereira ed.

Published by Albion and Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, 2004

ISBN 10: 1900829142 ISBN 13: 9781900829144

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Softcover, 164 pages, very good condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # CaGuAl45

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Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky

Cai Guo-Qiang

Published by Albion/Michael-Williams Fine Art Limited, London, 2004

ISBN 10: 1900829142 ISBN 13: 9781900829144

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky

Pereira, Sharmini

Published by Albion/Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, 2004

ISBN 10: 1900829142 ISBN 13: 9781900829144

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Flexi-bound. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. 163 pp., many photographs in full color. Very slight bumping to the crown of the spine, but otherwise in fine condition. More than 300 kites, in the shapes of man, eagle and eye, were brought to the remote Siwa Oasis of the Egyptian Sahara desert. 600 school children participated in painted the kites. A group of forty older boys helped with the flying of the kites. On the last night, the kites were set ablaze by handmade gunpowder fuse as the sun set into the desert. Seller Inventory # 006170

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