Asian art history in the twenty-first century / edited by Vishakha N. Desai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desai, Vishakha N.

Series:

Clark studies in the visual arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Asian--Historiography--Congresses.

Art, Asian.

Art criticism--History--21st century--Congresses.

Art criticism.

History.

Historiography.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Asian art history in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, the study of Asian art has dramatically changed and has constantly been shaped by shifting world politics. "Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century" explores the field of Asian art and its historiography, tensions, and possible future directions. It features essays by fourteen leading authors specializing in Chinese, East Asian, Indian, and Japanese art history. They consider what is meant by the term "Asian art"; how it is manifested in museums, exhibitions, and galleries; and how it should be understood in relation to shifting geopolitics. Among the many fascinating topics discussed are the Zen portrait in medieval Japan, the influence of Asian art on American art, and public art and memory of war in contemporary China. The authors also consider what new theoretical structures must be created to suit the realities of the twenty-first century and Asian art today.

Contents:

The shape of Indian art history / Frederick M. Asher

The East Asian architectural canon in the twenty-first century / Nancy S. Steinhardt

Changing views of change: the Song-Yuan transition in Chinese painting histories / Jerome Silbergeld

Negative verisimilitude: the Zen portrait in medieval Japan / Yukio Lippit

Love, death, and shifting patronage in Bali during the 1930s: two spatial models meet "face to face" on painted threads of sound / Kaja M. McGowan

Aesthetics, modernity, and trauma: public art and memory of war in contemporary China / Rana Mitter

A twentieth-century dream with a twenty-first-century outlook: Yashiro Yukio, a Japanese historian of western art, and his conception of institutions for the study of East Asian art / Akira Takagishi

Reincarnations of the museum: the museum in an age of religious revivalism / Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh

Micrology: the micropolitics in Chinese contemporary art / Gao Shiming

Reinscribing tradition in a transnational art world / Gennifer Weisenfeld

American art and the east: an exhibition proposal / Alexandra Munroe

An expanded Chinese history / Melissa Chiu

Histories of the Asian "new": Biennales and contemporary Asian art / John Clark.

Notes:

"This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "Asian art history in the twenty-first century," held 27-29 April 2006 at the Asia Society, New York, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780931102738

0931102731

9780300125535

0300125534

OCLC:

163593545

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