Ding Yi Philip Colbert

Philip Colbert

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important Surrealist artists working in Britain (alongside their artworks)

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Ding Yi Philip ColbertThis is the first monograph to give an overview of the entire career to date of artist Ding Yi (b. 1962), whose work, unlike most other well known Chinese painters, is wholly abstract. Large in scale, and extraordinary in detail, Ding Yi's paintings invite a myriad of questions, not least how an intuitive artist works with recurrent patterns and symbols. Tackling this paradox, the authors discuss a range of questions pertinent to the artist, primary