InFlux

Contemporary Art in Asia
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-81-321-1597-7
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 995 g

InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia brings together essays by leading critics and curators to examine modern and contemporary art practice and its discourses in Asia. Covering diverse regions spanning China, India, Thailand, Iran, West Asia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Cambodia, the book examines their multiple modernities and the arrival of many Asia's upon the contemporary art scene.

Some centers have become celebrated in the international exhibition circuit and the art market, but there is also an Asia beyond their ambit, and the book throws light upon major and minor, established and emergent geographies of art. Asia’s own internal minorities fracture any unified sense of place, and representing this diversity has become a major challenge for today’s curator.

What is the impact on contemporary art of state power and burgeoning economies, or the persistent stereotypes of Asian craftsmanship, exoticism, and religiosity or the new ones of terrorism and tourist paradise? The book aims to challenge some of these perceptions by viewing modern and contemporary Asian art not as a given field but as a project in flux, constantly under revision via art practice and curatorial interventions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherji, Parul Dave

Ahuja, Naman P

Singh, Kavita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Introduction - Geeta Kapur

I: CONTESTED TERRAINS AND CRITICAL RE-IMAGININGS - Parul Dave Mukherji

The Illusions and Antagonisms of Civilizational Exchange: Critical Reflections on Dismantling Asian Empires - Rustom Bharucha

The Elephant and The Ant: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s - John Anthony Clark

Worlding Asia: A Conceptual Framework for the First Delhi Biennale - Arshiya Lokhandwala

Cartographic Necessities: Contemporary Practices and the Making of a Brave New World - Gayatri Sinha

Curating Barbarians: Descriptions of a Visual Practice - Marian Pastor Roces

II: TROPES AND PLACES - Naman P Ahuja

Miniature, Monster, and Modernism: Curating Terror or Terror of Curating - Quddus Mirza

An Honest Engagement with the Pitfalls (and Perks) of the Ethnic (Rubric) - Negar Azimi

Retrieving the Far West: Toward a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam - Ranjit Hoskote
Interrogating the Sacred: Storylines for the Self - Nancy Adajania

The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project - Valeria Ibraeva

III: INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE - Kavita Singh

Curating Across Agnostic Worlds - Geeta Kapur

The Untold (the Rise of) Schisms - Shaheen Merali

Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics - Santhosh S
Excavating the History of the Present: Caste as Pictorial Sign in the Works of Savi Sawarkar - Y S Alone
Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication - Oscar Ho Hing Kay

Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies - Charles Merewether

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ahuja, Naman P
Naman P. Ahuja is an art historian and curator and is Associate Professor in the field of visual studies at J.N.U., where his research and graduate teaching focus on Indian iconography, ancient and medieval Indian sculpture, temple architecture and Sultanate period painting. Some of his publications include: Divine Presence: The Arts of India and the Himalayas (transl.into Catalan and Spanish, Five continents editions, Milan, 2003), “Changing Gods, Enduring Rituals: Observations on Early Indian Religion as seen through Terracotta Imagery c. 200 bc–ad 200” in South Asian Archaeology, Paris, 2001; The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Devi Prasad (Routledge, 2011 ); and The Body Indian Art and Thought (transl. into French and Dutch, Ludion, 2013) his latest work, accompanies a major exhibition with the same title in Brussels for Europalia.

Mukherji, Parul Dave
Parul Dave Mukherji is Dean of School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier, she taught at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda. She has lectured in India, Europe, and Japan and has been elected as the Delegate-at-Large representing India on the Executive Council of the International Association of Aesthetics. Her publications include Towards A New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (co-edited, 2003), Rethinking Modernity (co-edited, 2005), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence (2009).

Singh, Kavita
Kavita Singh is Faculty at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She trained as an art historian at MS University of Baroda and at Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has had a research fellowship at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a curatorial internship at the Asia Society, New York, and has been guest curator at the San Diego Museum of Art, California. She was also Research Editor at Marg, one of the major art journals in India. She has written on Indian classical and folk painting in publications such as Marg and Orientations; her current work is on the history and politics of the museum in India. Publications in this area include the collection No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: Modalities of the Museum in India (co-edited, forthcoming), “Repatriation without Patria: Repatriating for Tibet,” Journal of Material Culture (2010), “The Temple’s Eternal Return: Swami Narayan Akshardham Complex in Delhi,” Artibus Asiae (2010), and “The Universal Museum: View from Below,” in Witnesses to History: A Compendium of Documents and Writings on the Return of Cultural Objects (2009).