ABSTRACT
This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious, entertaining, and accessible guide to developments in Asian art over the past 20 years of the epoch of globalization.
The term ‘global Asia’ signals the genesis and evolution of contemporary art within the context of global economic, social, political, and intellectual change related to the end of the Cold War, decolonization, the emergence of postcolonial societies and cultures, and the rise of a global contemporary art world. In the handbook its editors establish, in an extended introductory section and in four section introductions, the theoretical, geographical, and historical parameters within which the contemporary visual arts of ‘global Asia’ may be described, analyzed, and evaluated. The collected chapters provide a diverse, multiauthored, heterogeneous, and genuinely plural account of art and its contexts. The democratic and inclusive character of globalization is reflected and produced within this anthology, which includes different styles of writing as well as varieties of analytic and thematic focus.
The anthology will appeal to both scholars and students in art history, art practice, curation, contemporary art, fine art, cultural studies, and globalization studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
Contexts, definitions, problems
chapter 2|14 pages
Why Asia? Map-Making as the Social Construction of Place
chapter 3|14 pages
Shifting Local Cultures Through Travelling Identities in the New Silk Roads
part II|68 pages
Mappings
chapter 4|14 pages
Orders of Spectating
chapter 7|9 pages
Facts in the Ground
chapter 8|20 pages
Telling Time through Nation and Narration
part III|62 pages
Regions and borders
chapter 9|12 pages
Palestinian Video Art and the Fluxus of Globalization
chapter 10|13 pages
Palestinian Video Art and the Fluxus of Globalization
chapter 13|12 pages
Metonym and Metaphor, Islands and Continents
part IV|60 pages
Sites, systems, and practices
chapter 14|12 pages
Palestinian International Exhibitions: From Universal Resistance to Global Nomadism – The Case of Qalandiya International
chapter 15|14 pages
Palestinian International Exhibitions: From Universal Resistance to Global Nomadism – The Case of Qalandiya International
part V|45 pages
Reflections on the dialectics of contemporary art in Asia