{"product_id":"humanity-ai-weiwei-9780691181523","title":"Humanity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His work and art call attention to attacks on democracy and free speech, abuses of human rights, and human displacement--often on an epic, international scale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of quotations demonstrates the range of Ai Weiwei's thinking on humanity and mass migration, issues that have occupied him for decades. Selected from articles, interviews, and conversations, Ai Weiwei's words speak to the profound urgency of the global refugee crisis, the resilience and vulnerability of the human condition, and the role of art in providing a voice for the voiceless. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSelect quotations from the book: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This problem has such a long history, a human history. We are all refugees somehow, somewhere, and at some moment.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Allowing borders to determine your thinking is incompatible with the modern era.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Art is about aesthetics, about morals, about our beliefs in humanity. Without that there is simply no art.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I don't care what all people think. My work belongs to the people who have no voice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ai Weiwei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691181527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691181523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.30h x 4.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2018","brand":"Ai Weiwei","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051945160959,"sku":"9780691181523","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a60d293e-c0f8-4f29-9f77-0dc66d58258f.jpg?v=1685016109","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/humanity-ai-weiwei-9780691181523","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}