Ding Yi Philip Colbert

Philip Colbert

a region instrumental in facilitating social change through art

important Surrealist artists working in Britain (alongside their artworks)

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

She made her debut at the Paris Salon only a year after joining the academy with her outstanding still-lifes

Ding Yi Philip ColbertThis 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