The city in time : contemporary art and urban form in Vietnam and Cambodia / Pamela N. Corey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corey, Pamela N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Political aspects.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Linked by their histories of conflict, the burgeoning contemporary art scenes of Vietnam and Cambodia have not yet garnered significant global attention. In 'The City in Time,' Pamela Corey focuses on these artists and their contexts, suggesting alternative ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices within a region that lingers in international perceptions as perpetually 'post-war.' Focusing on Ho Chi Minh and Phnom Penh, Corey explores how these key Southeast Asian cities shape artistic practices while the art simultaneously consolidates images of the cities. By tracing how collective memory and national aspiration are symbolically mapped onto landscape and built space, Corey portrays the city as an organizing site of heterogeneous subjectivities, communities, and perspectives brought together in a collective space. 'The City in Time' considers how the city has significantly served as a mold for contemporary art in Vietnam and Cambodia, examining the ways artists have simultaneously re-focused the city as target of reform, renewal and promise, participating in and pushing the geographical and methodological boundaries of global contemporary art"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : On Contemporary Art, History, and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia

Affective Communities : Imagining Saigon/Vietnam

Art and the Urban Order : Spatial Interventions in Ho Chi Minh City

Making Space : The Documentary Impulse and Civil Spectatorship in Cambodia

Jumping Scales : Performing the Postcolonial Cityscape in Phnom Penh

Conclusion : Cities in Conjunction and Comparative Prospects.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295749242

0295749245

OCLC:

1240265258