A Defiant City 抗命之城

Description

A Defiant City: 239 sketches of Hong Kong’s mass protest movement 2019-20
#A book dedicated to all real Hongkongers

The Album: This book is a pictorial album containing 239 sketches made by a Hong Kong-based artist
recording Hong Kong’s 2019-20 anti-extradition movement, a mass protest movement resisting a law
amendment aiming at extraditing people in Hong Kong to mainland China. The development of the
movement has attracted worldwide attention. The sketches compiled in this album covers events
running from March 2019, when the extradition bill was introduced, up to January 2020, when the
Wuhan coronavirus epidemic became a looming threat to Hong Kong and the whole world. With all
sketches accompanied by short captions telling the five Ws: what, when, where, how and why, the book
is almost a chronology of a historic resistance movement of the people of Hong Kong – Hongkongers.

The Sketches: The whole collection of sketches is made on A3 size (29.5 x 41.5 cm) water-colour
paper. The sketch project began in June 2019 after the one-million-plus and two-million-plus protest
marches and ended in mid January 2020 before the beginning of the year of the Rat. The media used
were pencil and felt marker (sign pen); colour was added with colour pencil and, occasionally, crayon.
The sketches are mostly based on photos taken by the two artists of Fong & Yeung Studio and also
from various sources online.

The artist: Fong So is a journalist-turned artist working mainly with the media of brush and ink.
Before turning to art, he was an editor of a current affairs magazine based in Hong Kong. He also
works with woodcut prints and some other media. His works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, South
Korea, the UK and the USA and appear in the collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the
Gwangju Art Museum in South Korea and the British Museum in London. Including this publication,
he has published nine art albums.

– Net proceeds minus $40 (cost+shipping) are donated for assisting HK freedom activists seeking asylum in Canada

– Size: 17 x 24 cm; 256 pages
Contents: 239 colour illustrations; a brief timeline of major events
Language: English
Publication date: December 2020

抗命之城：香港2019-20年抗爭運動速寫239圖
#一本獻給真香港人的手繪速寫集

畫冊：這本畫冊收錄速寫共239張，作者原為新聞工作者，後轉為從藝。他在2019至20年香
港的反送中運動期間，以速寫記錄了香港人面對苛政而奮起的抵抗。這場浩大持久的民衆抗爭
運動，起因是當局意圖修例，移送「逃犯」給中國大陸。運動席捲全城，也令舉世為之震撼。
畫冊内的速寫，記錄的事件始於2019年3月底香港特區政府提出修例，至2020年1月武漢肺
炎疫症來襲且危及全球而告一段落。239張速寫均附有文字解説，簡述有關事件的時地、經過
及因由，好讓讀者閲讀此書時，能看到一個按時序編列的圖文記錄，在縱覽這場真香港人的抗
爭運動時有更多的認知材料。

速寫：全部原作使用A3(29.5 x 41.5厘米)圖畫紙，以鉛筆及簽名筆手繪，設色時用顔色鉛筆
或再略加蠟筆。2019年6月香港兩次大規模的示威(6月9日，超過一百萬人上街；6月16日，
超過二百萬），啓動了作者這個速寫計劃，他一直畫到2020年1月鼠年降臨之前才告一段落。
速寫的底本多數是照片，9月之前使用的照片以楊方創作室兩個合夥人採攝的居多，之後參照
其他來源及互聯網上載的照片漸增。

作者：方蘇原為新聞工作者，曾任香港一本時事刊物的編輯近二十年，其後轉而從藝。他繪畫
主要是使用筆墨等傳統媒材，但畫作則明顯地有異於傳統。他也製作木刻版畫及使用其他媒材。
他的作品曾在香港、南韓、英國及美國展出，收藏的機構包括香港藝術館、南韓的光州美術館
及倫敦的大英博物館。他至今已出版了九本畫冊 (包括此冊在内)。

開本: 17 x 24厘米，全書256頁
内容: 239 彩圖，附文字説明及事件時序
英文本
出版年月: 2020年12月

– 收益扣除约$40 (成本+運費)將用於幫助流亡加拿大手足

Book printed in Taiwan and sold by Toronto Hong Kong Parent Group.
畫册在台灣印刷，由多倫多家長會提供。

eCopy of this book is now available at Amazon.com.
本書電子版現已在亞馬遜公開發售。

2023-08-01
好消息！最後一批新貨經已運抵，售完即止，請即落單訂購。
Good news! The last stock has arrived. There will be no reprint after they are gone. Place your order ASAP.

2024-01-01
大家留意，作者將不再加印，本書已成絕版。尚餘最後數本，欲購從速。
Attention: The author will not produce more reprint. Our last few are absolute last. Grab your copy ASAP.