MAN MEETS WOMAN BY YANG LIU
Yang Liu. Man meets Woman
Is this a man's world?
Bright, bold pictograms from Yang Liu revisit the roles, relationships and age-old clichés of male and female experience.
Hardcover 5.1 x 5.1 in., 128 pages
Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in
trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in public wasn’t sexy, but as creepy as a male
flasher. Where professional status and success presented the same prospects for both
sexes.
In this first in a new series for TASCHEN, leading graphic designer Yang Liu tackles
one of the hottest, and one of the oldest, topics of all: he and she. Drawing on the
experiences, challenges and many perspectives on men and women she has
encountered in her own life, Yang Liu distils the vast, swirling question of gender to
bold, binary pictograms.
Dealing with a whole host of situations from the bedroom to the boardroom, Yang Liu’s
designs are as simple and accessible in their presentation as they are infinite in the
associations, evocations and responses they elicit. Combining age-old stereotypes with
topical discrepancies, this fresh approach to the roles and relationships of men and
women is above all an effort to synthesize a notoriously thorny issue into a fun and
refreshing graphic form, and so to lighten and enlighten our mutual understanding and
tolerance.
The artist:
Yang Liu was born in 1976 in Beijing. After studying at the Berlin University of the
Arts, she worked as a designer in Singapore, London, Berlin and New York. In 2004 she
founded her own design studio, which she continues to run today. In addition to
workshops and lectures at international conferences, she has taught at numerous
universities in Germany and abroad. In 2010 she was appointed a professor at the BTK
University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Her works have won numerous prizes in
international competitions and can be found in museums and collections all over the
world. East meets West, a series of infographics drawing on her personal bicultural
experience has been exhibited worldwide, the corresponding book has become an
instant bestseller. Yang Liu lives with her family in Berlin.
