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Title

Contemporary art in Asia : a critical reader / edited by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Chiu, Melissa
• Genocchio, Benjamin.

Description

ix, 430 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

"In 2008, Asia stormed the citadel of the New York art world when two major museums presented retrospectives of Asian contemporary artists: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum and Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, a painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for $9.5 million, setting a new world auction record for Chinese contemporary art. The Western art world is still coming to grips with the challenge: it is all about Asia now. This book is the first anthology of critical writings to map the shift in both the nature and the reception of Asian art over the past twenty years. Offering texts by leading figures in the field (mostly Asian), and including more than fifty illustrations in color and black and white, it covers developments in East Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), South Asia (including India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand). Together, the twenty-three texts posit a historical and pan-Asian response to the question, "What is Asian contemporary art?" Considering such topics as Asian modernism ("productive mistranslation" of the European original), Asian cubism, and the curating, collecting, and criticism of Asian contemporary art, this book promises to be a foundational reference for many years to come."--Publisher description.

Subject

• Art, Asian > 20th century
• Art, Asian > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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/mulitmodernism (1996) / Jim Supangkat -- Imagining Asia : a genealogical analysis (2003) / Wang Hui -- Why cubism? (2006) / Tatehata Akira -- 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 audiences abroad (2008) / Young Min Moon -- 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 attutude : 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.

ISBN

• 9780262516235 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262516233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780262014915 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262014912 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010017754

OCLC

• 610206706
• SCSB-13808201

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Harvard Library