New World Map (Selected Scriptures, Page 3535)

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New World Map (Selected Scriptures, Page 3535)

1996

Hong Hao (Chinese, born 1965)

In recent years many younger Chinese artists have been injecting popular images from everyday life into their work to reflect their awareness of contemporary culture abroad. This is true of Hong Hao's ongoing series Selected Scriptures, in which he reproduces double-spread pages of world maps from antique atlases. Here, in a cunningly updated Renaissance map labeled "New World Map-New View," the artist has introduced a series of icons that represent the West's modern free-world materialistic culture, such as the cell phone, computer, skyscraper, and convertible.

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Object Details

Title:

New World Map (Selected Scriptures, Page 3535)

Date:

1996

Artist:

Hong Hao (Chinese, born 1965)

Medium:

Color screenprint

Dimensions:

Image: 12 x 23 1/2 inches (30.5 x 59.7 cm) Sheet: 21 1/2 x 29 1/4 inches (54.6 x 74.3 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Hunt Corporation (formerly Hunt Manufacturing Co.) Arts Collection Program, 1998

Accession Number:

1998-133-1

Geography:

Made in China, Asia

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