At Large

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project, he turns his attention to Alcatraz—a place he cannot visit because he is not permitted to leave China, but that stands as a world-famous symbol of both incarceration and protest.

This book showcases a major exhibition of site-specific, multimedia installations and sculptures Ai Weiwei has created for the island, on view from the Autumn of 2014 through the spring of 2015. Featuring beautiful photographs and thought-provoking text, At Large is the essential document of this remarkable happening from one of today's most celebrated artists.

About the Author

Ai Weiwei is a Beijing-based artist and activist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, film, architecture, curation, and social criticism. His art has been featured in major solo exhibitions including the retrospective Ai Weiwei: According to What?, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, in 2012, traveling to the PErez Art Museum Miami and to the Brooklyn Museum in 2014; and exhibitions at the Pulitzer Fountain, New York, 2011; and at Tate Modern, London, 2010.

He collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron on the design for the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion in London and on the 'birds nest' stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Among numerous awards and honors, he received the VAclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation in 2012.