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Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader

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Format: Trade Paperback
320 pages
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: April 2011
ISBN-10: 0262516233
ISBN-13: 9780262516235

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In 2008, Asia stormed the citadel of the New Yorkart world when two majormuseums presented retrospectives of Asian contemporaryartists: Cai Guo-Qiang at theGuggenheim Museum and Takashi Murakami at theBrooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, in HongKong, a painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for $9.5 million, settinga new worldauction record for Chinese contemporary art. The Western art worldis still coming togrips with the challenge: it is all about Asia now. This book is the first anthologyofcritical writings to map the shift in both the nature and the reception ofAsianart over the past twenty years. Offering texts by leading figures in thefield(mostly Asian), and including more than fifty illustrations in color andblack andwhite, it covers developments in East Asia (including China, Korea, andJapan), SouthAsia (including India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asia (includingVietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand). Together, the twenty-three textsposit ahistorical andpan-Asian response to the question, 'What is Asiancontemporary art?' Consideringsuch topics as Asian modernism ('productivemistranslation' of the Europeanoriginal), Asian cubism, and thecurating, collecting, and criticism of Asiancontemporary art, this bookpromises to be a foundational reference for many years tocome. This foundationalanthology maps the emergence of a dynamic new global phenomenon: contemporaryAsian art.