InFlux

What do we mean by the term 'contemporary Asian art', and how are we to represent it? With its varied histories, traditions and cultures, Asia can hardly be bracketed into one entity, yet the reception of its art is ridden with essentialisms and tropes. Meanwhile, the region's longstanding engagement with Modern and Contemporary art, globalisation and rapid economic changes has seen Asia's arts scenes change irrevocably. Influx: Contemporary Art in Asia explores the trends in, and circulation of, contemporary art from Asia in the many International Expos, Biennales and Art Fairs that seem to be focusing increasingly on this region. Illustrated with works of leading artists from India, China, Pakistan, South-East Asia and the Middle-East, it brings together essays by 19 critical writers. They reflect on the diversity of Asia's self-perceptions, the historical bases for a category such as Asia and its political and cultural exigencies which inform various curatorial interventions. INDICE: General Introduction - Geeta Kapur I: CONTESTED TERRAINS AND CRITICAL RE-IMAGININGS - Parul Dave Mukherji The Illusions and Antagonisms of Civilizational Exchange: Critical Reflections on Dismantling Asian Empires - Rustom Bharucha The Elephant and The Ant: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s - John Anthony Clark Worlding Asia: A Conceptual Framework for the First Delhi Biennale - Arshiya Lokhandwala Cartographic Necessities: Contemporary Practices and the Making of a Brave New World - Gayatri Sinha Curating Barbarians: Descriptions of a Visual Practice - Marian Pastor Roces II: TROPES AND PLACES - Naman P Ahuja Miniature, Monster, and Modernism : Curating Terror or Terror of Curating - Quddus Mirza An Honest Engagement with the Pitfalls (and Perks) of the Ethnic (Rubric) - Negar Azimi Retrieving the Far West: Toward a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam - Ranjit Hoskote Interrogating the Sacred: Storylines for the Self - Nancy Adajania The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project - Valeria Ibraeva III: INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE - Kavita Singh Curating Across Agonistic Worlds - Geeta Kapur The Untold (the Rise of) Schisms - Shaheen Merali Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics - Santhosh S Excavating the History of the Present: Caste as Pictorial Sign in the Works of Savi Savarkar - Y S Alone Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication - Oscar Ho Hing Kay Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies - Charles Merewether Bibliography Index

• ISBN: 978-8-1321-1597-7
• Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 228
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