1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows home and cedar trees

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hardcover with rigid slipcover

Stories that celebrate femininity while also acknowledging its challenges and failures

and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different from one another as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman

often in a tongue-in-cheek manner

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows home and cedar treesAGH Reads March Pick Hardcover 400 pages 9780553419467 Hailed as an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process. Once an intimate of Mao Zedong and the nations most celebrated poet, Ai Weiweis father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution,