Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm
Contemporary Art in Asia
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm
ISBN: 978-81-321-0702-6
Verlag: Sage Publications India
Contemporary Art in Asia brings together essays by leading critics and curators to examine modern and contemporary art-practice and ist 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 Asias upon the contemporary art scene.
Some centres 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.
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PART 1 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
PART 2: TROPES AND PLACES - Naman P Ahuja
Miniature, Monster and Modernism or 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: Towards a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam - Ranjit Hoskote
Storylines for the Self - Nancy Adajania
The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project - Valeria Ibraeva
PART 3: INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE - Kavita Singh
Curating Across Agonistic 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 Savarkar - Y S Alone
Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication - Oscar Ho Hing-kay
Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies - Charles Merewether
