Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780300125535

ISBN-10: 0300125534

ISBN-13: 9780300125535

Edition: 2008

Authors: Vishakha N. Desai

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Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, the study of Asian art has dramatically changed and has constantly been shaped by shifting world politics.Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Centuryexplores the field of Asian art and its historiography, tensions, and possible future directions. It features essays by fourteen leading authors specializing in Chinese, East Asian, Indian, and Japanese art history. They consider what is meant by the term "Asian art"; how it is manifested in museums, exhibitions, and galleries; and how it should be understood in relation to shifting geopolitics. Among the many fascinating topics discussed are the Zen portrait in medieval Japan, the influence of Asian…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.71" wide x 0.95" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Introduction




Forming the Canons


The Shape of Indian Art History



The East Asian Architectural Canon in the Twenty-First Century



Changing Views of Change: The Song-Yuan Transition in Chinese Painting Histories



Negative Verisimilitude: The Zen Portrait in Medieval Japan



Love, Death, and Shifting Patronage in Bali during the 1930s: Two Spatial Models Meet "Face to Face" on Painted Threads of Sound




Institutions, Aesthetics, Politics


Aesthetics, Modernity, and Trauma: Public Art and Memory of War in Contemporary China



A Twentieth-Century Dream with a Twenty-First-Century Outlook: Yashiro Yukio, a Japanese Historian of Western Art, and His Conception of Institutions for the Study of East Asian Art



Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism



Micrology: The Micropolitics in Chinese Contemporary Art




New Histories, New Futures


Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World



American Art and the East: An Exhibition Proposal



An Expanded Chinese Art History



Histories of the Asian "New": Biennales and Contemporary Asian Art



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