Some centers have become celebrated in the international exhibition circuit and the art market, but there is also an Asia beyond their ambit, and the book throws light upon major and minor, established and emergent geographies of art. Asia’s own internal minorities fracture any unified sense of place, and representing this diversity has become a major challenge for today’s curator.
What is the impact on contemporary art of state power and burgeoning economies, or the persistent stereotypes of Asian craftsmanship, exoticism, and religiosity or the new ones of terrorism and tourist paradise? The book aims to challenge some of these perceptions by viewing modern and contemporary Asian art not as a given field but as a project in flux, constantly under revision via art practice and curatorial interventions.' - from publisher's website.
Onsite
English
2013
260
9788132115977
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anthology
Section 1
Contested Terrains and Critical Reimaginings - Parul DAVE-MUKHERJI
The Elephant and the Ant: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s - John CLARK, 姜苦樂
Worlding Asia: A Conceptual Framework for the First Delhi Biennale - Arshiya LOKHANDWALA
Cartographic Necessities: Contemporary Practices and the Making of a Brave New World - Gayatri SINHA
Curating Barbarians: Descriptions of a Visual Practice - Marian PASTOR ROCES
Section 2
Tropes and Places - Naman P. AHUJA
Miniature, Monster, and Modernism: Curating Terror or Terror of Curating - Quddus MIRZA
An Honest Engagement with the Pitfalls (and Perks) of the Ethnic (Rubric) - Negar AZIMI
Retrieving the Far West: Toward a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam - Ranjit HOSKOTE
Interrogating the Sacred: Storylines for the Self - Nancy ADAJANIA
The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project - Valeria IBRAEVA
Section 3
Interventions in the Public Sphere - Kavita SINGH
Curating across Agnostic Worlds - Geeta KAPUR
The Untold (the Rise of) Schisms - Shaheen MERALI
Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics - Santosh SANTOSH
Excavating the History of the Present: Caste as Pictorial Sign in the Works of Savi Sawarkar - Y.S. ALONE
Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication - HO Hing Kay Oscar, 何慶基
Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies - Charles MEREWETHER
InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia
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