'This collection gathers new histories of art and architecture from Cambodia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and beyond. Ten essays by emerging scholars draw upon unexplored archives and works of art, bearing witness to rich local histories and the complexity of artistic exchanges in the context of postcolonialism and the Cold War, the legacies of which still shape the region today.' - from back cover.
Contributors include Roger Nelson, Chomchon Fusinpaiboon, Brigitta Isabella, Michelle Wong, Simon S Y Soon, Thanavi Chotpradit, Wulan Dirgantoro, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, Clare Veal, and Melissa Carlson.
Onsite
English
2018
332
9780909952921
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anthology
Aligning New Histories of Southeast Asian Art
- Phoebe SCOTT, Yvonne LOW, Sarena ABDULLAH, Stephen WHITEMAN
‘The Work the Nation Depends On’: Landscapes and Women in the Paintings of Nhek Dim
- Roger NELSON
Strategic Modernism: The Architecture of HSH Prince Vodhyakara Varavarn and Modern Thailand in Transition, 1950s–1960s
The Politics of Friendship: Modern Art in Indonesia’s Cultural Diplomacy, 1950–65
Circulating Abstraction: Exhibiting Hong Kong in Manila, 1961–82
- Michelle WONG, 黃湲婷
Place of Learning: The Contested Cultural Topographies of Nanyang University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Simon SOON, 孫先勇
Re-Establishing the Kingdom: Anti-Communist Monuments in the Thai Highlands
- Thanavi CHOTPRADIT
Aesthetics of Silence: Exploring Trauma and Indonesian Paintings After 1965
- Wulan DIRGANTORO
Embodied Subjectivities: Accounts of Affect in Lani Maestro’s Site-Specific Work,
Beyond Reality: Locating the Sur-Real in Thai Photography
- Clare VEAL
Painting Through the Cheroot Haze: Censorship of Female Artists in Socialist Burma, 1962–88
- Melissa CARLSON
Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art 1945–1990
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