The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Art in Global Asia

Herausgeber: Gras, Menene; Makhoul, Bashir; Harris, Jonathan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781032258522
• ISBN-10: 1032258527
• Artikelnr.: 71236211

Autorenporträt

Menene Gras has been the director of culture and exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003 and is also the current director of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN). With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator, lecturer, and former professor at the same university. Author of many essays, catalogues, anthologies, and four books of poetry, she was art correspondent for Art Forum for more than 12 years and has been writing in many newspapers and art magazines for many years. Jonathan Harris has taught at several British universities, including Keele, Liverpool, Southampton, Birmingham City, and the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, England, where he is the director of UCA Doctoral College. Specializing in modernist and contemporary art, Harris has published 23 books and over 150 book and journal essays, including a trilogy of studies on art and globalization, and most recently he has edited Terrorism and the Arts (Routledge 2021). Bashir Makhoul is the president and vice chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Professor Makhoul is a writer, editor, and artist with a substantial track record of driving globalization initiatives within higher education. He is an internationally exhibited artist, his work features in major collections, and he is widely acknowledged as a global authority on Palestinian art.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Traveling 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 Globalisation: 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 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 the True Colour 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