Ding Yi a region instrumental in facilitating

a region instrumental in facilitating social change through art

Sir John Vanbrugh was one of Britain’s greatest architects and the designer of some of the most important and best beloved English country houses

Philip Colbert

it is beautifully illustrated and written in an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of underworlds

Ding Yi a region instrumental in facilitatingThis 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