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

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    • Title:Contemporary art in Asia : a critical reader / edited by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Chiu, Melissa.
      Genocchio, Benjamin.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Asian--20th century.
      Art, Asian--21st century.
    • Description:ix, 430 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780262516235 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9780262014915 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 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.
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