Art and Trousers : Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art / David Elliott and Vishakha N. Desai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, David, 1787-1874, author.

Desai, Vishakha N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Asian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ArtAsiaPacific Publishing LLC, [2021]

Summary:

"An illustrated collection of more than thirty essays and 640 color images, Art and Trousers moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers. This book presents a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, varying its focus on the impacts of invention, tradition, exchange, colonization, politics, social development, and gender. David Elliott spotlights the practice of many leading global artists of the early twenty-first century, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Rashid Rana, Bharti Kher, Makoto Aida, Chatchai Puipia, and Yeesookyung, among many others. Art and Trousers offers insight into the development of a key curatorial practice for our times, and it will be an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary art and the way it operates across borders"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Prologue / Vishakha N. Desai

Foreword / David Elliott

Part 1. Histories. The slippered pantaloon

Going global : alterity and other things at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford

From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic : modernity at a time of change

Tokyo-Berlin : a continuing dialogue from empire to democracy

Bye Bye Kitty!!!... : between heaven and hell in contemporary Japanese art

Heaven and earth : contemporary art from the center of Asia

Tibet : what if...? Pitfalls of identity in a slippery age

The best of times, the worst of times : contemporary art along the Post-Soviet Silk Road Part 2. Stories. Who is wearing the trousers?

KG Subramanyan : an Indian in Oxford

Jitish Kallat : fugitive moments of an unacceptable present

Rashid Rana : the machinery of truth

Naiza Khan : image and revelation

Xu Bing : tradition, representation and language

Ai Weiwei : the seeds of time or the sands of the desert?

Song Dong : "Art, My Last Hope."

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu : "Somewhere Beyond Rape and Adultery"

Xu Zhen : chaos and rectitude in the face of history

Makoto Aida : the surface of things

Miwa Yanagi : the four ages of woman

Chiharu Shiota : time and distance, absence and silence

Tomoko Kashiki : a floating world

Heri Dono's Paradox : the arrow or the Kris?

Chatchai Puipia's Last Masque : a funerary oration

Rodel Tapaya : "The One You Feed"

Choi Jeong Hwa : Gangbuk style

Yeesookyung : reflections on a Korean urn Part 3. Migrations. A short history of the trouser

Cai Guo-Qiang : earth, air and fire

Zeng Xiaojun : labyrinths

Hiroshi Sugimoto : the faces of infinity

Leiko Ikemura : the house beyond the horizon

Nezaket Ekici : the world in a house

Rasheed Araeen : the dancer and the flame

Bharti Kher : icebergs in India, snowballs in hell.

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ISBN:

9780989688543