ISBN-13: 978-1-931907-03-3 ISBN-10: 193190703X Order No. 1007 8.5x11, Hardcover 92 pages, 2003 Art $34.95

Ink Paintings by Gao Xingjian is a remarkable and extraordinary art book by the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 2000, the only Nobel laureate who is also an established painter.

This book brings together over sixty ink paintings by Gao Xingjian that are representative of his philosophy and painting style. Gao believes that the world cannot be explained, and that artistic creation offers the only way to escape from the madding crowd. The images in his paintings show exactly those aspects of the world that he believes to be inexplicable -- the black-and-white inner world that underlies the complexity of human existence. All his paintings are drawn in the traditional Chinese black ink on rice paper because he feels that "the brushing and spread of the ink on rice paper holds a definite kind of enjoyment" for him. What is special about Gao is that he always listens to music while painting, waiting for the music to strike a chord in his heart before setting out.

Gao's painting is characterized by the spontaneous overflow of the ink and his seemingly abstract images which are nonetheless figurative or metaphorical. People admire his meditative images and evocative atmosphere by which Gao intends his viewers to visualize the human conditions in extremity.

2000年诺贝尔文学奖获得者高行健又是一位颇有建树的画家。本书是他的一本精彩艺术作品集。
书中收集的60多幅水墨画充分体现了作者的人生哲学及其绘画风格。高行健通过艺术创作来表现他认为是不可言述的世界，同时绘画又是他远离喧闹人群的唯一方式。高的画都是有感而作,一气呵成。他笔下的黑白世界勾画出了人类生存的多样性。这些看似抽象的画都具有隐喻或借喻的含义，人们在欣赏这些饱含思索的绘画的同时，感受到了画家创造的氛围，去体察人类的极度状态。

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gao Xingjian, the man who wears many hats - painter, novelist, playwright, translator, director, and critic -- is the first China-born recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature since the prize's inception more than one hundred years ago.

Born in Jiangxi Province of eastern China in 1940, Gao began painting as a child and at the age of ten wrote and illustrated his first short story. He graduated from the Beijing Foreign Language Academy in 1962 with a major in French. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Gao was sent to the countryside where he spent five years. Upon returning from the countryside he worked as a professional playwright in Beijing. In 1982, his stage play Alarm Signal marked the beginning of experimental theatre in China. The following year, his play, Bus Station, was forbidden production by the Chinese authorities. In 1985, a new play, The Primitive, renewed the heated controversy over his work. Since rehearsals for his next play, The Other Shore, were terminated by the government in 1986, no work by Gao has been seen in China.

In 1987, Gao left China to settle in Paris where he began a fruitful period of literary and artistic creation. He has created an abundance of original works including paintings, novels, essays and stage plays. Gao Xingjian paints in Chinese ink and has had over thirty international exhibitions in such places as Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Paris, Marseille, Berlin, London, New York, Vienna Luxembourg, and Moscow.

His major novels include Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible. The Other Shore, Bus Station, and Snow in August are among his major plays. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000 the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gao Xingjian is now a French citizen living in Paris.

高行健是一位画家，小说家，剧作家，翻译家，导演和批评家。他是诺贝尔奖有史以来第一位生于中国的获奖者。高1940年出生于中国江西省，1962年毕业于北京外国语学院法语专业，文革期间在农村度过了5年，回到北京后开始了职业剧作家的生涯。他创作了一些有争议的作品，其中《The other shore》1986年被政府禁止。1987年他来到法国，创作了极为丰富的作品，包括绘画，小说，杂文和剧作。他的水墨画在世界各地参加过30多个国际画展。1992年获法国政府颁发的...奖，2000年获诺贝尔文学奖。高行健目前是法国公民，居住在巴黎。

 

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