Critical Publications by Lee Ambrozy
"Inside the White Cube: 50 Years of Art Criticism from Artforum" , Feb 2017
Editor. "Inside the White Cube" is a Chinese-language anthology of texts first published in Artfo... more Editor. "Inside the White Cube" is a Chinese-language anthology of texts first published in Artforum International Magazine. For the first time, these essential art historical milestones are made available to Chinese audiences.
The table of contents and editor's introduction (Chinese only) are available here for download.
Editor, translator, author (introductory essay).
Editorial by Lee Ambrozy
Editor, author, translator. Bilingual catalogue raisonné for He An. Includes curatorial essay, ar... more Editor, author, translator. Bilingual catalogue raisonné for He An. Includes curatorial essay, artist's writing in Chinese and with English translation. (For download, see below.)
Published on the occasion of He An's solo exhibition "Jade Branch," at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, December 2019–February 2020.
Essays by Lee Ambrozy
"Through the Spirit Screen: Qiu Jiongjiong" , 2024
Condensed PDF featuring English catalog essay and dialogues from "Qiu Jiongjiong: Through the Spi... more Condensed PDF featuring English catalog essay and dialogues from "Qiu Jiongjiong: Through the Spirit Screen"
《椒麻神遊記：邱炯炯》, 2024
《椒麻神遊記：邱炯炯》精简版的 PDF，包含策展文人章与艺术家的对谈
On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief moment in time , 2024
Catalog essay published in "On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief moment in time... more Catalog essay published in "On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief moment in time"
Taipei: Ministry of Culture, MonTUE, 2024
Liang Shuo: DISTANT tantamount MOUNTAIN, 2017
Essay for Liang Shuo's catalog "Distant TANTAMOUNT Mountain," published on the occasion of his ex... more Essay for Liang Shuo's catalog "Distant TANTAMOUNT Mountain," published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, 2017.
He An "Jade Branch" , 2020
Curatorial essay from He An's catalogue raisonné (Ed. Lee Ambrozy, 2020), in Chinese and English.
Papers by Lee Ambrozy
ARTMargins, 2015
This introduction situates the conversation between Hsieh Teh-Ching, Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing within... more This introduction situates the conversation between Hsieh Teh-Ching, Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing within a larger historic and socio-cultural framework, as well as elaborates a brief history of the publication in which the conversation was first published, The Black Cover Book. The text also elaborates on the unarticulated issues informing their discussion, such as their émigré status, and briefly outlines a history of the artists' work at the time of the conversation. The work of other avant-garde artists in the Chinese diaspora whose work was published in The Black Cover Book is also touched upon briefly. This introduction reclaims some of the history behind the publication and argues for understanding the act of self-publication as not only a new conduit for artistic interaction but also a political act. Furthermore, it argues that it not only congealed an emerging art movement on Mainland China, but that this avant-garde and conceptual art movement was, at its very core, defined by...
Ai Weiwei's Blog: writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009, 2011
Introduction to "Ai Weiwei's Blog: writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009" by Lee Amb... more Introduction to "Ai Weiwei's Blog: writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009" by Lee Ambrozy
ARTMargins (MIT Press) , Jun 2015
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Critical Publications by Lee Ambrozy
The table of contents and editor's introduction (Chinese only) are available here for download.
Editorial by Lee Ambrozy
Published on the occasion of He An's solo exhibition "Jade Branch," at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, December 2019–February 2020.
Essays by Lee Ambrozy
Taipei: Ministry of Culture, MonTUE, 2024
Papers by Lee Ambrozy