Research Catalog

Title

Channels & confluences : a history of Singapore art / Kwok Kian Chow.

Author

Kwok, Kian Chow

Publication

Singapore : National Heritage Board : Singapore Art Museum, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Singapore. National Heritage Board
• Singapore Art Museum

Description

159 p. : col. ill.; 31 cm.

Alternative Title

Channels and confluences

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art, Singaporean
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Singapore

Genre/Form

Exhibitions (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-157) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Amateur Drawing Association and the Low Brothers -- United Artists Malaysia -- Chinese Artists in Singapore Before 1945: The Influence of the May Fourth Movement -- The Society of Chinese Artists -- Ink Painting in Singapore -- Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the Beginnings of the "Nanyang School" -- Sino-Japanese War -- Richard Walker, Colonial Art Education and visiting European artists before World War II -- World War II -- Singapore Art Society, Society of Malay Artists and the British Council -- The Bali Field Trip, Liu Kang, Chen Chong Swee, Chen Wen Hsi and Cheong Soo Pieng -- Georgette Chen -- The Emergence of an Art Market -- Social Realist Trends: Woodcut Movement, Equator Art Society -- Modern Art Society -- Ink Painting Societies, Singapore Watercolour Society and the Singapore River -- Ten Men Art Group & Field Trips in Southeast Asia -- Teo Eng Seng, Ng Eng Teng, Thomas Yeo, Goh Beng Kwan and Anthony Poon -- Notions of Modern Art in the 1970s -- National Museum Art Gallery, Art Competitions, New Innovations -- Women Artists -- New Modernists, La Salle-SIA College of the Arts -- Tang Da Wu, The Artists Village -- Singapore Art Museum, New Regionalism -- Concluding Remarks -- Selected References -- Endnotes -- Index -- Featured Artists: Low Kway Song, Fan Chang Tien, See Hiang To, Huang Pao + Fan Chang Tien + Ling Cher Eng + Low Eng + Wang Geyi, Xu Beihong, Wu Tsai Yen, Chong Pai Mu, Chen Jen Hao, Richard Walker, Dora Gordine, Leo Rawlings, Bill Haxworth, Lim Hak Tai, Cheong Soo Pieng, Chen Chong Swee, Liu Kang, Chen Wen Hsi, Georgette Chen, Chua Mia Tee, Lim Mu Hue, Tan Tee Chie, Lim Yew Kuan + Choo Keng Kwang + Foo Chee San + Koh Chen Ti + Tan Tee Chie + Lim Mu Hue, Wee Kong Chai, Ho Kok Hoe, Ho Ho Ying, Wee Beng Chong, Thang Kiang How, Tan Ping Chiang, Tay Kiam Hong, Goh Chiew Lye, Chau Ek Kay, Lim Cheng Hoe, Ong Kim Seng, Teo Eng Seng, Yeh Chi Wei, Choo Keng Kwang, Lim Tze Peng, Shi Tat Sing, Seah Kim Joo, Ng Eng Teng, Thomas Yeo, Goh Beng Kwan, Anthony Poon, Tan Swie Hian, Henri Chen, Tan Oe Pang, Chew Hiong San, Abdul Ghani Hamid, Jaafar Latiff, Chieu Shuey Fook, Tay Bak Koi, Eng Tow, Chng Seok Tin, Lin Hsin Hsin, Han Sai Por, Diana Chua, Amanda Heng, Suzann Victor, Simon Wong, Jimmy Quek, Ng Yak Whee, Jimmy Ong, Joseph McNally, Tang Da Wu, Lim Poh Teck, Tang Mun Kit, Jailani Kuning, Faizal Fadil, Vincent Leow, Baet Yeok Kwan, Salleh Japar, Chandrasekaran, Goh Ee Choo.

ISBN

9810074883

LCCN

^^^96945607^

OCLC

34851517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library