EAN: 9780262536226

BOOK FROM THE GROUND - BING XU KARTONIERT (TB)

A book without words  recounting a day in the life of an office worker  told completely in the
symbols  icons  and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky  a book of
illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground  a
book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky  the Chinese
artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are
universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials  experimenting  revising
and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The
result is a readable story without words  an account of twenty-four hours in the life of Mr.
Black ” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls
from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock  it continues through tooth-brushing 
coffee-making  TV-watching  and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway  works in his
office  ponders various fast-food options for lunch  waits in line for the bathroom  daydreams
sends flowers  socializes after work  goes home  kills a mosquito  goes to bed  sleeps  and
gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and
intimate detail  and reads like a postmodern  post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of
Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative  using an exclusively visual
language  could be published anywhere  without translation or explication  anyone with
experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity 
from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.

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