Introduction

Chapter 1 : A Mirror of Revolution

1. Asian Art and the West

2. Naming and Originality

3. Challenges to Traditional Ideas of Art

4. Asian Differences

5. Regional Differences

6. The Institutionalisation and Control of Art

7. The Place of Craft

Some Timely Threads

Chapter 2 : The Setting : From the Nineteenth Century

North Asia: Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan

1. Japanese Modernisation: Towards Art of the New Century

2. The Contrast in China and Korea: Upheaval and Defeat

Southeast Asia: The Philippines, Malaya, The Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Indo-China and Siam

1. European Colonialism in the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and Indo-China

2. The Separateness of Siam

South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

1. The Gentleman Painter

2. The British and Ravi Varma

Chapter 3 : New Worlds: 1900-1940

North Asia: Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan

1. Japan: The Battle of Two Traditions

2. Colonised States: (a) Taiwan, (b) Korea

3. Chinese Stirrings: Art for the Elite

4. Chinese Stirrings: Art for the People and the Development of Graphic Art

Southeast Asia and the Struggle for Local Identity

1. Philippines Success

2. Setting the Scene for the Future

(a) Indonesia: From the 'Beautiful Indies' to Persagi

(b) Vietnam: From the School of Paris in the Far East to Ho Chi Minh

3. Slower Paces

(a) Siam: A Different Scenario

(b) Colonial Control and Other Strife

(i) The Malay Peninsula

(ii) Burma, Laos and Cambodia

4. A Different Flowering: Bali in the 1930s

South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

1. The Dominance of Bengal: 'Tradition, Nature and Freedom'

2. Other Centres and Individuals

Chapter 4 : War and Nationalism: 1940-1960

South Asia: Ceylon, India and Pakistan

1. The '43 Group: A Time of Significance in Ceylon

2. India: A Gathering of Individuals

3. West Pakistan: The Emergence of Lahore

4. And East Bengal

Southeast Asia : The Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore

1. The Philipppines: Celebrations

2. Indonesia: The Triumph of the 'Little People'

3. Ho Chi Minh and Propaganda Art in Vietnam

4. Others

(a) Thailand

(b) Malaya and Singapore: The Nanyang Style

North Asia: Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan

1. Mao and Art for the People in China

2. The New Avant-garde in Japan

Chapter 5: The Triumph of the New: 1960-2000

North Asia: Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan

1. Japan: 1960s and 1970s, Conceptual Art and Mono-ha

2. Minimalism and Minjoong Misool: Revolt in Korea

3. The Pure and the Impure: Japan and Korea in the 1980s and 90s

(a) Japan

(b) Korea

4. 'China'

(a) Taiwan

(b) Hong Kong

(c) The People's Republic: The 'Stinking Ninth Category', Public Approval and the New Wave

Southeast Asia: The Philippines, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Brunei

1. The Philippines: From Internationalism to Local Protest Art and Beyond

2. Thailand: A Separate (Buddhist) Country

3. Malaysia and Singapore: Being in Control

4. Indonesia: The Passion for the Local, Again

5. Vietnam: Nostalgia Rules

6. Burma, Laos and Cambodia, and Brunei Darussalam

South Asia: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal

1. India: A Continuous Narrative

2. Pakistan: The Triumph of the Local

3. Smaller Centres

(a) Dhaka

(b) Kathmandu

(c) Colombo

Conclusion : The Diaspora