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Artists > Zhang, Hongtu > Soy Calligraphy: The Sweat Shop Help Wanted Ad, Wang Xizhi (321-379 A.D.) Style

Soy Calligraphy: The Sweat Shop Help Wanted Ad, Wang Xizhi (321-379 A.D.) Style

42x32 inches (h x w x d)

1996

soy sauce on rice paper

Materials

epoxy resin; rice paper (nonfibrous paper)

Style/Period

appropriation; humor; irony; Postmodern; Chinese calligraphy; Wang Xizhi (321-379 A.D.) Style

Subjects

cultural heritage; immigrants; immigration; masterpiece (concept); contradiction; soy sauce; sweat shop; Zhang, Hongtu

Soy Calligraphy

Source: Slide

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