Voyages de Rhodes : Thảo Nguyên Phan ; editors, Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
Author(s): Bauer, Ute Meta | Rujoiu, Anca | Phan, Thảo Nguyên
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Voyages de Rhodes
- Author(s)
- Phan, Thảo Nguyên
Bauer, Ute Meta
Rujoiu, Anca - Publisher
- Singapore : NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, 2018
- Collation
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations
24 cm - Series Title
- Artist's Book Series
- Summary
- "Published and commissioned by the Centre, Voyages de Rhodes re-assembles into a book format watercolour drawings painted directly by the artist on the pages of a found publication. The artist used as her canvas a book by French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes (1591–1660) that describes his travel experiences and observations, including in the region of present-day Vietnam, during the seventeenth century. Phan’s interventions in the book interweave different narratives that sit at the border between realism and fantasy. Reflecting upon the problematic agrarian reforms in post-war Vietnam that led to the redistribution of land and collective farming, Phan’s drawings depict children in the foreground as protagonists of an imagined commune where play or state of inertia become tools of defiance and escape. Juxtaposing seventeenth-century travel literature with contemporary images, Phan’s works produce a palimpsest of Vietnam’s history with layers of voices from the present and the past."--Publisher's website
- ISBN
- 9789811186769
- Dewey Class
- 759.9597
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Watercolor painting -- Vietnam
Artists' books
Art, Vietnamese - BRN
- 9982
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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759.9597 PHA
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Available
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