Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art

'Painters in Hanoi is a superbly researched history of art and politics in twentieth-century Vietnam. Nora Taylor recounts how generations of Hanoi's artists have pursued an identity — or have had one thrust upon them — in interrogating the legacies of colonial patronage, in heeding the calls of revolution and the Communist Party, or in becoming clients and collaborators in a global capitalist art market. Making brilliant use of oral history and ethnographic interviews with painters and intellectuals, Taylor has significantly refigured Vietnamese art history around local rather than Western and nationalist preoccupations. This fresh and discerning book is indispensable for our historical understanding of art and modernity in postcolonial Southeast Asia." - Kenneth M. George (quoted from the back cover of the first edition)

Plates, appendix, notes, bibliography, index are included.

Access level

Onsite

author

Nora A. TAYLOR

publisher

National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Location code

REF.TAN

Language

English

Keyword

art history, painting, Vietnam

Publication/Creation date

2009

Edition

Second

No of pages

176

ISBN / ISSN

9789971694531

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

[1] Introduction: Sketches of Vietnamese Painting

[2] Orientalists of Occidentalists? 'Indochinese' Artists Under Colonialism

[3] National Heroes and Artistic Heroes: Artists Under the Revolution

[4] Bui Xuan Phai and the Modern Masters of Vietnamese Painting

[5] Postwar Artists and Reformers

[6] Women Artists

[7] The Hanoi Art Market and the Global Artist

[8] Conclusion: Past and Present in the Hanoi Art World

Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art

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