An Introduction

- Szewee LOW, 劉思偉

Address of Art: Vicinity of Region, Horizon of History

- Patrick D. FLORES

1. When Was Modernism? A Historiography of Singapore Art

- Kevin CHUA

2. The 19th-Century "Origins" of Singapore Art

- Chongguan KWA

3. Colonial Art as a Space of the Asian Modern

- John CLARK, 姜苦樂

4. The Javanese Painter Raden Saleh (c. 1811-1880): A Star in the Firmament of Indonesian Modern Visual Art

- Maria-Odette SCALLIET

5. Towards a History of the Asian Photographer at Home and Abroad: Case Studies of Southeast Asian Pioneers Francis Chit, Kassian Cephas and Yu Chong

- Gael NEWTON

6. Pre-war (1886-1941) Art Activities of the Chinese Community in Singapore through a Narrative Framework of Diasporic Bonds

- Mangthong YEO, 姚夢桐

7. A "Forgotten" Art World: The Singapore Art Club and its Colonial Women Artists

- Yvonne LOW

8. Balinese Modernism

- Adrian VICKERS

9. The Birth of ‘Fine Art' in Southeast Asia, 1900-1945

- Masahiro USHIROSHOJI, 後小路雅弘

10. Conditions of Freedom, Contingencies of Art

- Patrick D. FLORES

11. The Transition of Thai Traditional Art to Modern Art in the 1950s and 1960s

- Somporn RODBOON

12. Landscape Painting in Indonesia: Continuity and Change in President Sukarno's Collection

- Susie PROTSCHKY

13. Conflict and Denial: The Discourse of Identity in Indonesian Art, 1950s-1980s

- Aminudin T.H. SIREGAR

14. Lim Hak Tai Points a Third Way: Towards a Socially Engaged Art by the Nanyang Artists, 1950s-1960s

- Yujin SENG

15. The Women and the Vista: Intimate Revolt of the Cultural Left

- Simon SOON, 孫先勇

16. Cultural Wars in Southeast Asia: The Birth of the Critical Exhibition in the 1970s

- Yujin SENG

17. Reading Conceptual Art in Southeast Asia: A Beginning

- T.K. SABAPATHY

18. The Singapore Contemporary and Contemporary Art in Singapore

- C.J. Wan-ling WEE

19. Continuity and Change: Vietnamese Art in the Age of Đổi Mới

- Nora A. TAYLOR

20. Unpacking the Legacy of an Exceptional Artist from Myanmar: Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990)

 

- Yin Ker

21. Emergenc(i)es: History and the Auto-Ethnographic Impulse in Contemporary Cambodian Art

- Ashley THOMPSON

22. Rhetorical Postures and the Photographic Condition: A Minor Malaysian Detour

- Adele TAN

23. Undoing the Global: Contemporary Art of Singapore

- June YAP, 葉又丹

24. Drafting History: Meditation on Location, Institutions and Myth-Making in Visual Arts in Postcolonial Singapore

- Venka PURUSHOTHAMAN

25. Metonym and Metaphor, Islands and Continents: Reflections on Curating Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia

- LEE Weng Choy, 李永財