Histories, practices, interventions : a reader in Singapore contemporary art / edited by Jeffrey Say, Seng Yu Jin.
Author(s): Seng, Yu Jin | Say, Jeffrey
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Histories, practices, interventions : a reader in Singapore contemporary art
- Author(s)
- Say, Jeffrey
Seng, Yu Jin - Publisher
- Singapore : Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, 2016.
- Collation
- xxvi, 413 p. : ill.
21 cm. - ISBN
- 9789810990633
- Dewey Class
- 709.5957
- Contents
- Introduction / Jeffrey Say and Seng Yu Jin -- The state of art writing in Singapore / Jeffrey Say and Seng Yu Jin --
I. Constructing the contemporary: theories and histories. Introduction / Seng Yu Jin -- New art, new concepts (1972) / Cheo Chai-Hiang -- Art, besides being new, has to possess an intrinsic quality in order to strike a sympathetic chord in the hearts of the viewers (1972) / Ho Ho Ying -- Tracing (un)certain legacies: conceptualism in Singapore and the Philippines (2011) / Isabel Ching -- Contemporary art in Singapore: an introduction (1995) / TK Sabapathy -- Not modern: theses on contemporary art (2007) / Gunalan Nadarajan -- Sustaining alterity in the times of r(v)apid changes (2009) / Lee Wen -- In & out of shadows: some notes on photographic art in Singapore (2014) / Lindy Poh -- Envisaging hollowness in contemporary Singapore (2001) / Joan Kee -- The crisis of context: what holds heterogeneities together (2000) / Susie Lingham -- Creative rebelliousness and the aesthetics of the postmodern (2002) / William SW Lim -- Practising contemporary art in the global city for the arts, Singapore (2012) / CJ W-L Wee --
II. Interventions in the contemporary: the state, art institutions and the public. Introduction / Susie Wong -- A censorship manifesto (2000) / Alfian Sa'at -- Looking back at brother cane: performance art and state performance (1996) / Ray Langenbach -- Alternative spaces and radical pleasures (1996) / Lee Weng Choy -- Encounters in engagement: investigating public engaged art in Singapore (2002) / Jay Koh and Chu Chu Yuan -- Artist as mediator--on Amanda Heng's art (2011) / Wu Mali -- A field of dreams: re-positioning the arts (2005) / Kuo Pao Kun -- The LASALLE School: 20 years of fine arts from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (2004) / Gunalan Nadarajan -- Locating culture: art, policy and the production of culture in Singapore (2002) / Venka Purushothaman -- Bland modernity, kitsch and reflections on aesthetic production in Singapore (2002) / CJ W-L Wee -- A glimpse of the ineffable, the uncanny, the transcendent ... (2007) / Kwok Kian-Woon -- In venetian waters: Singapore at the 49th Venice Biennale (2002) / Kevin Chua --
III. Practising the contemporary: art as and expanded field. Introduction / Lim Kok Boon -- Perpetual beginnings: strands of processes in painting (2004) / Ho Tzu Nyen -- Crossing the ink boundary (1999) / Chua Ek Kay -- Sculptors and sculpture in Singapore; an introduction (1991) / TK Sabapathy -- Home grown--installation/conceptual artists in Singapore (1999) / Binghui Huangfu -- Trimurti and dimensions of performance art (1998) / Tay Swee Lin -- Reproduction of Trimurti exhibition catalogue (1988) / S Chandrasekaran, Goh Ee Choo and Salleh Japar -- The artists village: collaboration as transformation (2009) / Russell Storer -- (Non)visible bodies/spaces (2001) / John Low -- Vincent Leow: coffee talk (1992)(2010) / Ray Langenbach -- Interview with Tang Da Wu (1991) / TK Sabapathy -- The slow burn: privatised protest in recent contemporary art from Singapore (2012) / Tan Boon Hui. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Art criticism -- Singapore
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Singapore - BRN
- 6964
Notes
- Essays by Jeffrey Say, Seng Yu Jin, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Ho Ho Ying, Isabel Ching, TK Sabapathy, Gunalan Nadarajan, Lee Wen, Lindy Poh, Joan Kee, Susie Lingham, William SW Lim, CJ W-L Wee, Susie Wong, Alfian Sa'at, Ray Langenbach, Lee Weng Choy, Jay Koh, Chu Chu Yuan, Wu Mali, Kuo Pao Kun, Kwok Kian Woon, Kevin Chua, Lim Kok Boon, Ho Tzu Nyen, Chua Ek Kay, Binghui Huangfu, Tay Swee Lin, S Chandrasekaran, Goh Ee Choo, Salleh Japar, Russell Storer, John Low, Tan Boon Hui.
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