Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience, and Practice of Modern Asian Art (University of Sydney East Asian)

ISBN 10: 1876957107 / ISBN 13: 9781876957100

Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2007

About this Item

Very good used condition with slight kink to the page margin and mild scuffing -- This book interrogates the relationship between different kinds of modern art and different kinds of cultural contexts in Asian and Pacific countries. The thirteen essays examines how the modern is formed by artists in relation to other traditions and practices (Western or folk), the audience and modern art institutions, and the burgeoning conceptions of the national as deployed by the post-colonial state. The methodologies applied are broad, from anthropology and art history to cultural studies, and the perspectives include those of academics, curators, and new media theorists. In the Eye of the Beholder contributes a diverse understanding of where modern and contemporary Asian art is now situated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience, and Practice of Modern Asian Art (University of Sydney East Asian)
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1876957107
• ISBN 13: 9781876957100
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arts and Culture

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Synopsis

This book interrogates the relationship between different kinds of modern art and different kinds of cultural contexts in Asian and Pacific countries. The thirteen essays examines how the modern is formed by artists in relation to other traditions and practices (Western or folk), the audience and modern art institutions, and the burgeoning conceptions of the national as deployed by the post-colonial state. The methodologies applied are broad, from anthropology and art history to cultural studies, and the perspectives include those of academics, curators, and new media theorists. In the Eye of the Beholder contributes a diverse understanding of where modern and contemporary Asian art is now situated.

About the Author

Maurizio Peleggi is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and editor of the "Journal of Southeast Asia Studies". He is the author most recently of "Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom".