Asian art history in the twenty-first century : edited by Vishakha N. Desai

Author(s): Desai, Vishakha N.

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Main Title
Asian art history in the twenty-first century
Author(s)
Desai, Vishakha N.
Publisher
Williamstown, MA : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007
Collation
253 p. : col. ill.
28 cm.
Series Title
Clark studies in the visual arts
ISBN
9780300125535
Dewey Class
709.5
Contents
Introduction / Vishakha N. Desai --
Part One: Forming the Canons. The shape of Indian art history /​ Frederick M. Asher -- The East Asian architectural canon in the twenty-first century /​ Nancy S. Steinhardt -- Changing views of change: the Song-Yuan transition in Chinese painting histories /​ Jerome Silbergeld -- Negative verisimilitude: the Zen portrait in medieval Japan /​ Yukio Lippit -- Love, death, and shifting patronage in Bali during the 1930s: two spatial models meet "face to face" on painted threads of sound /​ Kaja M. McGowan --
Part Two: Institutions, Aesthetics, Politics. Aesthetics, modernity, and trauma: public art and memory of war in contemporary China /​ Rana Mitter -- A twentieth-century dream with a twenty-first-century outlook: Yashiro Yukio, a Japanese historian of western art, and his conception of institutions for the study of East Asian art /​ Akira Takagishi -- Reincarnations of the museum: the museum in an age of religious revivalism /​ Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh -- Micrology: the micropolitics in Chinese contemporary art /​ Gao Shiming --
Part Three: New Histories, New Futures. Reinscribing tradition in a transnational art world /​ Gennifer Weisenfeld -- American art and the east: an exhibition proposal /​ Alexandra Munroe -- An expanded Chinese art history /​ Melissa Chiu -- Histories of the Asian "new": Biennales and contemporary Asian art /​ John Clark.
Language
English
Subject
Art criticism -- History -- 21st century
BRN
1523

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