The Routledge handbook of contemporary art in global Asia / edited by Menene Gras, Jonathan Harris and Bashir Makhoul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gras Balaguer, Menene, 1951- editor.

Harris, Jonathan (Curator), editor.

Makhoul, Bashir, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization.

Art and society.

Asia--History.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious, entertaining, and accessible guide to developments in Asian art over the past twenty years of the epoch of globalization. The term 'Global Asia' signals the genesis and evolution of contemporary art within the context of global economic, social, political, and intellectual change related to the end of the Cold War, Decolonization, the emergence of postcolonial societies and cultures, and the rise of a global contemporary art world. In the handbook its editors establish, in an extended introductory section and in four section introductions, the theoretical, geographical, and historical parameters within which the contemporary visual arts of 'Global Asia' may be described, analyzed, and evaluated. The collected chapters provide a diverse, multi-authored, heterogeneous, and genuinely plural account of art and its contexts. The democratic and inclusive character of globalization is reflected and produced within this anthology, which includes different styles of writing as well as varieties of analytic and thematic focus. The anthology will appeal to both scholars and students in art history, art practice, curation, contemporary art, fine art, cultural studies, and globalization studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Table of Contents

List of contributors

I. Contexts, definitions, problems

1 Introduction: Art in 'global Asia' in a transformed world

2 Why Asia? Map-making as the social construction of place: increasing Asian power in the world

3 Shifting local cultures through travelling identities in the new Silk Roads: the temptation to return

II. Mappings

4 Orders of spectating: rehearsals of sovereignty and new museums of art in the Near East

5 Pedagogy, bureaucracy, and fashioning a rooted modernism

6 The 1990s: a new epoch in the history of Korean contemporary art

7 Facts in the ground: artefacts, fictions, and national identities in contemporary Palestinian art

8 Telling time through nation and narration: towards an understanding of 'Asian contemporary art' in global Asia

III. Regions and borders

9 Palestinian video art and the fluxus of globalization. 'Palestinian' as a contemporary national identity

10 Palestinian video art and the fluxus of globalization. Palestine as an 'imagined community'

11 Doing the business in the Hong Kong art world

12 The woman does not exist: de-Oedipalization of contemporary art

13 Metonym and metaphor, islands and continents: reflections on curating contemporary art from Southeast Asia

IV. Sites, systems, and practices

14 Palestinian international exhibitions: from universal resistance to global nomadism - the case of Qalandiya International. Qalandiya International: the predicament of a colonially defined locality

15 Palestinian international exhibitions: from universal resistance to global Nomadism - the case of Qalandiya International. Qalandiya International: a genealogy of institutional patterns, behaviours, and references

16 Art after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami: radical changes in Japanese art.

17 Biennales and triennales in global Asia: art as journey and encounter

18 Museum frenzy: notes from the field on studying True Color Museum

V. Reflections on the dialectics of contemporary art in Asia

19 The exhibition

20 The age of gold and the dust of stars: paradise and fall in the paintings of Li Xinping

21 The provincial cosmopolitan: Emily Jacir and the Mediterranean Sea

22 A new ecology of knowledges: modes of abyssal thinking

23 From dusty warehouses to the white cube: BizArt and the developing forms of contemporary art display in Shanghai

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-328529-5

1-003-28529-5

1-000-82156-0

9781003285298

OCLC:

1351204404