When Prayer Fails Type:Buy Used

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Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his own life story and that of his father

and his architectural achievements include helping to design the iconic Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing

Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile

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His political activism has long made him a target of the Chinese authorities

which culminated in months of secret detention without charge in 2011

Once an intimate of Mao Zedong

and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as ''Little Siberia

Hailed as ''the most important artist working today'' by the Financial Times and as ''an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom'' by The New York Times

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and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America

he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist-and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime