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Singapore chronicles : art / Seng Yu Jin, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa.

Author(s): Mustafa, Shabbir Hussain | Seng, Yu Jin

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Main Title: Singapore chronicles : art
Author(s): Seng, Yu Jin
Mustafa, Shabbir Hussain
Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Policy Studies, Straits Times Press Pte Ltd, 2018.
Collation: 115 pages : color illustrations
20 cm.
Series Title: Singapore chronicles
ISBN: 9789814747387
Dewey Class: 709.5957
Contents: Introduction: "Something new must turn up" -- Art or artefact? The colonial museum becomes modern -- Nanyang colour: exchanges between writers and painters -- Singaporeana: Suri Mohyani and Mohammad Din Mohammad -- Art and the everyday: the case of Cheong Soo Pieng -- Social realism during the Malayan Emergency -- Contesting ideologies: the 1963 Modern Art Society exhibition -- The structures of sculpture: Kim Lim -- Rejection-proof: contestations of the "New" -- Sites of alterity: between the farm and the shopping mall -- Conclusion: Measuring the self, earth and sea.
Language: English
Subject: Art -- Singapore
Art -- Singapore -- History
BRN: 9473