United Nations: United 7561 Kilometers

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Title United Nations: United 7561 Kilometers
Creator Wenda Gu
Creator Nationality Chinese
Building Art Gallery, University of North Texas
Location City/State Denton, Texas
Location Country United States
Style Period 21st Century Art; Contemporary Art
Description A site-specific installation commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts 2002
Subject Contemporary Asian Art
Creation Date 2003 CE
Form installation
Medium 5000 m human hair braid made of 7561000 m of human hair, rubber stamps of recreated 191 nations' names of the world, a hair column
Dimensions 40' high x 25' wide x 25' long
Classes ARTH 4020: Chinese Painting
Source Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2003.
Work ID 11307
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6vm7q6h
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 36734
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vm7q6h
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