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With over fifteen years of outstanding art projects based around sport on the record, their works were included in the 2011 Venice Biennale and are in museums worldwide and numerous private collections. Anderson \u0026amp; Low are official artists for the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad Festival: for an exhibition opening July 19, the National Portrait Gallery commissioned them to depict the dreams and aspirations of athletes and support staff associated with this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn ENDURE, Anderson \u0026amp; Low present a new body of work that is truly groundbreaking and without precedent. For the first time ever, Beijing opens its elite gymnastics training facility to the world: Anderson \u0026amp; Low, the only artists to be allowed such access, have responded and the results are stunning - with this project these renowned artists truly deliver. 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It was first translated by students of Giuseppe Tucci in Rome in the 1950s, when the academic study of Tibetan culture was still in its formative period. This book is the long-awaited result of an extraordinary research adventure, compiled over more than a decade of independent travel, textual archaeology, field interviews with scholars, monks and villagers, photo research, and of bearing witness to the brutal destruction and modern transformation of an ancient land. During the 1990s, Matthew Akester walked the length and breadth of Central Tibet in the tracks of Khyentsé Wangpo, visiting all of the more than 200 places listed in the Guide, meeting the people who rebuilt them after the Cultural Revolution or could remember what they once were, searching out Tibetan literary sources that shed even the faintest light on their history, and mapping them on a landscape rendered unrecognisable by the rapid construction of a new Chinese Tibet. 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