Five Thousand Years Of Good Advice
Five Thousand Years Of Good Advice
- Artist: Mary Ann Liu
- Artist: Jay Samwald
- Year: 1987
- Duration: 12:00
- Country: Canada
Images of power and crisis are orchestrated over Ezra Pound's translations of Confucius: The Great Digest, written on ancient stone tablets. To seek harmony in the nation, one must first of all put one's own house in order. To put one's own house in order, one must seek precise verbal definitions of the ineffable. Liu reads in Cantonese while Samwald reads the English translation.
- Accession #: 1496
- Distribution Status: In Distribution