The Surrealistic City #2
Artist/Culture
Quentin Shih
(Chinese, born 1975)
Date1998
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions33 x 21.6 cm (13 x 8 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Martha Tepper Takayama in honor of the Callahan and Lenis Families
Terms
Object number2001.108
DescriptionHaving never taken a course on photography or served as a photographic assistant, Quentin Shih is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker who learned the craft through books and experimentation. Shih’s work often addresses collisions between Western and Asian culture, specifically the conflict between the communal mentality in China and the cult of the individual in the West. Part of a series of eight photographs, The Surrealist City #2 restages The Scream (1893)—an existential painting depicting what artist Edvard Munch called “the enormous infinite scream of nature”.
Label TextHaving never taken a course on photography or served as a photographic assistant, Quentin Shih is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker who learned the craft through books and experimentation. Shih’s work often addresses collisions between Western and Asian culture, specifically the conflict between the communal mentality in China and the cult of the individual in the West. Part of a series of eight photographs, The Surrealist City #2 restages The Scream (1893)—an existential painting depicting what artist Edvard Munch called “the enormous infinite scream of nature”. ProvenanceTepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston
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