Curator Alexandra Munroe laments the inadequate attention paid to the influence of Asian art and philosophy on modern and contemporary art in the United States. Thus, this exhibition aims at tracing 'how the art, literature, and philosophical systems of the Orient became known, reconstructed, and transformed with American cultural and intellectual currents'.
This accompanying catalogue features critical essays expounding the different currents of Asian influence on the development of modern and contemporary American aesthetics. A chronology of American-Asian encounters from 1784 to 1989 is included for contextual understanding. Images of exhibits and brief artist biographies are also featured.
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2009
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catalogue
The Thrid Mind: An Introduction - Alexandra MUNROE
Orientalism, South Asia, and the Discourse of World Religions - Richard KING
Postwar America and the Aura of Asia - Harry HAROOTUNIAN
Aestheticism and Japan: The Cult of the Orient - Vivien GREENE
Landscapes of the Mind: New Concepts of Nature - Kathleen PYNE, D. Scott ATKINSON
Ezra Pound, Modern Poetry, and Dance Theater: Transliterations - J. Thomas RIMER
The Asian Dimensions of Postwar Abstract Art: Calligraphy and Metaphysics - Bert WINTHER-TAMAKI
Buddhism and the Neo-Avant-Grade: Cage Zen, Beat Zen, and Zen - Alexandra MUNROE
Asian Structures in Modern Composition: Music and Philosophy - David W. PATTERSON
Art of Perceptual Experience: Pure Abstraction and Ecstatic Minimalism - Alexandra MUNROE
Performance Art and the Experiential Present: Irregular Ways of Being - Kristine STILES
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989
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