Beyond Imperial Aesthetics Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia / edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choe, Steve, editor.

Inoue, Mayumo, editor.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects--East Asia--History--21st century.

Art.

Art--Political aspects--East Asia--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between 'the West' and 'Asia', the authors of this volume re-examine art and aesthetics to challenge these oppositions in order to reconceptualize politics and knowledge production in East Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theorizing beyond Imperial Aesthetics in East Asia

I. Beyond Boundaries: Theorizing Aesthetics in East Asia since 1945

1. Asian Theory and European Humanity: On the Question of Anthropological Difference

2. Cold War Aesthetics in East Asia

3. The Turn to Japan and Return to War

II. Politics of the Sensuous: Love, Bodies, and Sexuality in East Asia

4. Male Sexuality in the Colony: On Toyokawa Zen’ichi’s Searchlight

5. The Grain of Jade: Woman, Repression, and Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town

6. Corpo-reality in the Hong Kong New Wave

III. Disjunctive Alignments: Critical Aesthetics and Social Movements in East Asia

7. On the Form’s Edge: Adaniya Masayoshi’s Abstract Paintings and Biopolitics in US-Occupied Okinawa

8. Reconciling the Animal and the City in Photography: Kim Kichan’s Works in 1970s Korea

9. Performing Absence, Translating “China”: Disrupted History and Performative Identity in Stan Lai’s Xiangsheng Plays

IV. Beyond Neoliberal Borders: From Biopolitical Spaces to an Affective Community

10. Tange Lab and Biopolitics: From the Geopolitics of the Living Sphere to the Nervous System of the Nation

11. Multitemporality between Sovereignty and Neoliberal Governmentality: A Single Spark and The Old Garden

12. The Affective Multitude: Toward a Transcultural Meaning of Enlightenment

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789882204294

9882204295

OCLC:

1113866494