Asia through art and anthropology : cultural translation across borders /

How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity...

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Other Authors: Nakamura, Fuyubi, 1974- (Editor), Perkins, Morgan (Editor), Krischer, Olivier (Editor), Morphy, Howard (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Asian artists as long-distance cultural specialists in the formation of modernities / John Clark
  • In and out of place: Tibetan artists' travels in the contemporary art world / Clare Harris
  • Imagining "Asian" aesthetics in colonial Hanoi: the École des Beaux-arts de l'Indochine (1925-1945) / Phoebe Scott
  • Coming home: how "re-entry" shaped the work of a contemporary woman artist in Taiwan / Natalie Seiz
  • Painting on location: Lin Haizhong and contemporary Chinese ink painting / Morgan Perkins
  • Catching the moment, one step at a time / Phaptawan Suwannakudt
  • Lifting words, floating words / Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
  • Typologic: interactions between the intellect and the senses / Chihiro Minato
  • Some Indian "views of India": the ethics of representation / Christopher Pinney
  • Fragile polyphony: Takeda Taijun's longing for Asia through the landscape of Shen Congwen / Barbara Hartley
  • Unframing the nation: the moving image and its Parergon in southeast Asia / David Teh
  • The "nationality" of Lolita fashion / Masafumi Monden
  • The impossibility of performing "Asia" / Catherine Diamond.