Book from the Ground: from point to point by Xu Bing- This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9780262027083
Publication Date: 2014-02-07
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. 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. SC Copy