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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Five Spice Street

Cover painting by Yue Minjun

Five Spice Street's cover is notable because it features a portion of a painting called Look at the World by Chinese artist Yue Minjun. (Here's the whole thing, which is about 9 x 7 feet). I don't recall ever seeing one of his paintings used to illustrate a book cover. Anyone know of other examples?

Check out Flickr and the artist's site for lots more images of his work. But whatever you do, don't miss this one.

2 comments:

MrSneeze said...

Oh he's great. I worked on a magazine for the (UK) Sunday Times about the Saatchi Gallery's Chinese art exhibition in which his art was featured: tinyurl.com/nln9f2

Steener said...

There's this one, but it's about Chinese contemporary art, so it's an obvious choice. http://ursusbooks.com/item127685.html