The Asian modern : John Clark ; with introductions by Patrick D. Flores and a contribution from Phoebe Scott ; edited by Julie Ewington
Author(s): Ewington, Julie | Flores, Patrick D. | Scott, Phoebe | Clark, John
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The Asian modern
- Author(s)
- Clark, John
Ewington, Julie
Flores, Patrick D.
Scott, Phoebe - Publisher
- Singapore : National Gallery Singapore, 2021
- Collation
- xxxv, 458 pages : color illustrations
24 cm - ISBN
- 9789811406072
- Dewey Class
- 709.5
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Part I. An Art History to Be Name / Patrick D. Flores -- Chapter One: The Asian Modern. To Begin With -- Background to This Project -- Comparative Analysis of Art Histories across Boundaries -- Conceptual Intentions -- Methods and Analyses -- Periodisations. I. Transitions to Modernity, 1850s-1890s ; II. Academy Realism, Salon Art and the National, 1880s-1910s ; III. Early Modernism, 1920s-1930s ; IV. Abstractionism and Conceptualism, 1940s-1960s ; V. The Contemporary, 1980s to the Present -- Location -- Affiliation -- Histories -- Nations -- Mediators -- Historical Worlding of The Asian Modern -- Siting of Artists in Art Discourses. Appropriation and Counter-Appropriation: Cohort One ; Formalisation of Endogeny and Exogeny: Cohort Two ; Movement and Stability, Localism and Cosmopolitanism: Cohort Three ; Developments under Post-Coloniality: Cohort Four ; Locality and Contemporaneity, the Global Transnational Emerges: Cohort Five -- Two Other Phenomena Concerning the 1990s --
Chapter Two: Transitions to Modernity, 1850s-189s. History of Artists and Contexts -- Khrua In Khong (fl. 1850s-1860s), Siam -- Raden Saleh (c. 1811-1880), Dutch Indies -- Simon Flores (1839-1904), The Philippines -- Goseda Yoshimatsu (1855-1915), Japan. Domestic Precursors ; Goseda Yoshimatsu: Family, Life and Work ; Contemporaries -- Commonalities and Differences in Selection: Site and Cohort -- In Conclusion: --
Chapter Three: Academy Realism, Salon Art and the National, 1880s-1910s. Initial Problematics -- History of Artists and Contexts -- Ravi Varma (1848-1906), India -- Juan Luna (1857-1899), The Philippines -- Tom Roberts (1856-1931) Australia -- Commonalities and Differences in Selection -- Hypotheses about Modernity: Three Concluding Issues. I. Presenting the Self: Pictorial and Photographic Discourses in 19th-Century Dutch Indies, Siam and Japan. The Impact of Pre-Photographic Visual Discourses ; Reformulating the Image of the Ruler by and for the State ; Some Theoretical Insertions ; Photography and Early Realist Pictorial Discourse in Japan ; Functions of the Photographic Image when Reproduced in Other Media -- II. Allegories of the National Allegories in Theory. Pictorial Representation ; The Nation ; Linkage Mechanisms ; Types of Subject Suitable for Allegory, Linkage to Gaze ; Types of Visual Device -- III. Changing Nature of Paris as a World Art Capital for Asian artists --
Chapter Four: Early Modernism, 1920s-1930s. The Problematic -- History of Artists and Contexts -- Victorio C. Edades (1895-1985), the Philippines -- Trajectories of the National: An Inter-Asian Comparison. National Art Contents in Academy Art ; Borrowing of National Formulations -- Xu Beihong (1895-1953) and Arthur Kampf (1864-1950). I. In Berlin ; II. In Terms of Their Succeeding Work -- Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) and Her Trajectory, China and France -- Pan Yuliang and Amrita Sher-Gil in Relation to the Work of Lucien Simon -- Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941), Hungary, India and France -- Summing Up the National -- Margaret Preston (1875-1963), Europe, Asia, the Indigenous and Australia --
Chapter Five: Transitions through World War II. Bifurcation of Modern Japanese Art Practice -- Ono Tadashige (1909-1990) and Avant-Garde Print Movements from the 1930s, Japan. Developments of Ono's Work ; Social Background ; Predecessors and Teachers ; Major Works ; Groups and Research ; Conclusion -- Hamaya Hiroshi (1915-1999) and Photographic Modernism, Japan. Rise of Modern Photographic Discourse ; Hamaya Hiroshi and the Visual Context of His Time ; Consequences of the Eight Years' War (1937-1945) for Japanese Visual Discourses ; Trajectories Out of the War --
Chapter Six: Summary and Conclusions. Reconceiving the Asian Modern -- Siting Art Discourse -- Transitions to Modernity and Their Visibility to Comparison --
Part II. Finally, or in Hindsight, the Contemporary / Patrick D. Flores -- Chapter Seven: Problematics -- Theoretical Framework for Part II -- Ending of the Colonial World and the Transition to a New Order after World War II -- Indices of Transition -- Other Ways Out of the War -- Sudjojono's Struggle against Colonial Visuality and for a New National and Personal Expression. Colonial Visuality ; Sudjojono and Portraiture ; A Note on the Historical Landscape and Its Spectres -- Nguyen Tu Nghiem's Vernacular Modernism / Phoebe Scott. Beginnings: Life and Art under the Colonial System, 1918-1945 ; Nguyen Tu Nghiem and Vietnamese Socialist Realism: 1945-1960 ; Modernism in Isolation, 1960-1975 ; The Post-War Period and The Doi Moi Reforms -- Transitions from Colonialism: Sudjojono and Nguyen Tu Nghiem Compared --
Chapter Eight: Abstraction and Conceptualism, 1940s-1960s. Origins of the Contemporary: Mytho-Centrism and Abstraction -- K.C.S. Paniker -- Park Seo-bo -- Informel and Its Naming -- Debates about the Contemporary -- A Personal and Regional Poetics: Latiff Mohidin -- Art World and Art Movement -- Politics of Post-Independence Malaysia -- One Artist's Trajectories: The Work of Latiff Mohidin -- Traces of Life --
Chapter Nine: The Contemporary, 1980s to the Present. Gulammohammed Sheikh and Multiversity. Special Features of Gulammohammed Sheikh's Development as an Artist ; Manifestos and Movements ; Stylistics ; "Mughal" Modes ; Working Methods ; Memories ; Indian Art in the World ; Poetic and Literary Inspiration -- Roberto Bulatao Feleo's Reworking of Some Filipino Myths -- F.X. Harsono and the Excavation of the Recent Past --
Chapter Ten: Aleatoric and Fractured Spaces. The Work of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook. Discourse and the Contemporary ; Personal History and Her Work ; Educational History ; Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's Practice. Graphics ; Installation ; Video ; Avant-Garde Functions in Thai Art Society -- Zhang Peili: Negotiating the Space of Contemporary Art in China with Video. Brief Survey of Context for Contemporary Art ; Apparent Government Policy and Exhibitions' Context ; Brief Notes of History of Video Art in China ; Overseas Contacts and Returnees ; The Work of Zhang Peili -- John Young: Painting Simulacra and a Re-Envisaged History. Part I: John Young's Work ; Five Phases of Development ; Part II: John Young's Art Theories and Their Sources ; Diasporic Identity and History --
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion and Rearticulation: The Asian Modern -- Bibliography -- Index. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, Asian
Art, Asian -- History - BRN
- 10406
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