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Asia through art and anthropology : cultural translation across borders

Title
Asia through art and anthropology : cultural translation across borders / edited by Fuyubi Nakamura, Morgan Perkins and Olivier Krischer ; with a foreword by Howard Morphy.
Publication
  • London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • 中村, 冬日, 1974-
  • Nakamura, Fuyubi, 1974-
  • Perkins, Morgan
  • Krischer, Olivier
  • Morphy, Howard
Description
xvii, 206 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity, tradition and modernity have become fluid. Drawing on accounts of modern and contemporary art, film, literature, fashion and performance, it challenges established assumptions of the cultural products of Asia. Special attention is given to the role of cultural translators or 'long-distance cultural specialists' whose works bridge or traverse different worlds, with the inclusion of essays by three important artists who share personal accounts of their experiences creating and showing artworks that negotiate diverse cultural contexts. With contributions from key scholars of Asian art and culture.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Asian artists as long-distance cultural specialists in the formation of modernities / John Clark -- In and out of place: Tibetan artists' travels in the contemporary art world / Clare Harris -- Imagining "Asian" aesthetics in colonial Hanoi: the École des Beaux-arts de l'Indochine (1925-1945) / Phoebe Scott -- Coming home: how "re-entry" shaped the work of a contemporary woman artist in Taiwan / Natalie Seiz -- Painting on location: Lin Haizhong and contemporary Chinese ink painting / Morgan Perkins -- Catching the moment, one step at a time / Phaptawan Suwannakudt -- Lifting words, floating words / Savanhdary Vongpoothorn -- Typologic: interactions between the intellect and the senses / Chihiro Minato -- Some Indian "views of India": the ethics of representation / Christopher Pinney -- Fragile polyphony: Takeda Taijun's longing for Asia through the landscape of Shen Congwen / Barbara Hartley -- Unframing the nation: the moving image and its Parergon in southeast Asia / David Teh -- The "nationality" of Lolita fashion / Masafumi Monden -- The impossibility of performing "Asia" / Catherine Diamond.
ISBN
  • 9780857854483
  • 0857854488
  • 0857854496
  • 9780857854490
OCLC
  • ocn862112488
  • 862112488
  • SCSB-1775603
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library