Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Open and closed discourses of modernity in Asian art / John Clark
  • Preconditions of modernity and modernism: Balinese painting : revival of reaction? / Anthony Forge
  • The enigma of modernism in early twentieth century Indian art / Purushottama Bilimoria
  • The art movement in the 1930's in Taiwan / Yen Chuan-ying
  • Nationalism and modern Asian art: State building and Thai painting and sculpture in the 1930's and 1940's / Helen Michaelsen
  • Chinese art in the 1950's : an avant-garde undercurrent beneath the mainstream of realism / Shao Dazhen
  • The controversy between the academies of Bandung and Yogyakarta / Helena Spanjaard
  • After the empire : Chinese painters of the post-war generation in Taiwan / Jason C. Kuo
  • The institutions of the modern art world in the Philippines / Alice G. Guillermo
  • Types and contexts of Asian modernism: Was Japanese fauvism fauvist? / Sakai Tadayasu
  • Post-impressions in pre-war Shanghai : the Juelanshe (Storm Society) and the fate of modernism in republican China / Ralph Crozier
  • Modern Korean painting and sculpture / Kim Youngna
  • Modernist and post-modernist developments in Malaysian art in the post-independence period / Redza Piyadasa
  • Artist roles and meaning in modern Indonesian painting / Astri Wright
  • Post-modern constructions: On the grotesque trend in Japanese post-modern art / Yomota Inuhiko
  • Is there post-modern art in the People's Republic of China? / Ellen Johnston Laing
  • Thai MODERNism to (post?) modernISM, 1970's and 1980's / Apinan Poshynanda