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Contemporary art in Asia : a critical reader

Author(s): Genocchio, Benjamin | Chiu, Melissa

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Main Title: Contemporary art in Asia : a critical reader
Author(s): Chiu, Melissa
Genocchio, Benjamin
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011
Collation: ix, 430 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.)
23 cm.
ISBN: 9780262014915
Dewey Class: 709.50905
Contents: Introduction: What is Asian Contemporary Art? Mapping an Evolving Discourse / Melissa Chu and Benjamin Genocchio --
Part 1. Asian Modernisms: Issues and Debates. National/Modern: Preliminaries (1991) / Geeta Kapur -- Open and Closed Discourses of Modernity in Asian Art (1993) / John Clark -- Developing Regionalist Perspectives in Southeast Asian Art Historiography (1996) / T. K. Sabapathy -- Multiculturalism/Multimodernism (1996) / Jim Supangkat -- Imagining Asia: A Genealogical Analysis (2003) / Wang Hui -- Why Cubism? (2006) / Tatehata Akira --
Part 2. Representing Asia: Curation and Criticism. The Future: Post-Cold War, Postmodernism, Postmarginalia (Playing with Slippery Lubricants) (1993) / Apinan Poshyananda -- Cities on the Move (1997) / Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist -- Contemporary Asian Art and Its Western Reception (2002) / David Clarke -- Home and Away: Highways and Byways in Asian Art (2004) / Chaitanya Sambrani -- Beyond the "Authentic-Exotic": Collecting Contemporary Asian Art in the Twenty-first Century (2005) / Vishakha N. Desai -- The Curatorial Turn in Southeast Asia and the Afterlife of the Modern (2008) / Patrick D. Flores -- Biennale Demand (2008) / Lee Weng Choy -- The Politics of Curating "Contemporary Korean Art" for Audience Abroad (2008) / Young Min Moon --
Part 3. Expanding Asia: New Art Histories. The Mono-ha: Foreshadowings and Premonitions (1977; revised 2001) / Lee Ufan -- Modernism and the Chinese Other in Twentieth-Century Art Criticism (1996) / Alice Yang -- Conceptual Art with Anticonceptual Attitude: Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (1999) / Gao Minglu -- Radicalizing Tradition (2000) / Salima Hashmi -- Historicizing "Contemporary Art": Some Discursive Practices in Gendai Bijutsu in Japan (2004) / Reiko Tomii -- Theories of Being Outside: Diaspora and Chinese Artists (2007) / Melissa Chiu -- What is Feminist about Contemporary Asian Women's Art? (2007; revised 2009) / Joan Kee -- Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World (2007) / Gennifer Weisenfeld -- A Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art (2008) / Wu Hung.
Language: English
Subject: Art, Asian -- 20th century
BRN: 1382