Ding Yi For much of the first

For much of the first two-thirds of the 20th century

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

He made a couple of documentary films – Lobsters and New Architecture at London Zoo and worked as a designer on Things to Come for Alexander Korda

Philip Colbert

Ding Yi For much of the firstThis 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