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Book SynopsisInFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia brings together essays by leading critics and curators to examine modern and contemporary art practice and its discourses in Asia. Covering diverse regions spanning China, India, Thailand, Iran, West Asia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Cambodia, the book examines their multiple modernities and the arrival of many Asia′s upon the contemporary art scene. Some centers have become celebrated in the international exhibition circuit and the art market, but there is also an Asia beyond their ambit, and the book throws light upon major and minor, established and emergent geographies of art.
Trade ReviewA pleasure to browse...it defines a lifetime of service and thought. It can stimulate our minds, footnotes and ambition.... beautifully designed...the images are uniformly well reproduced...provides an intriguing glimpse into three important stands in the growing discourse on contemporary art as it churns in India, challenging readers to come to terms with the concerns central to this vibrant scholarly discussion.
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Table of ContentsGeneral 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 Agnostic 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 Sawarkar - Y S Alone Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication - Oscar Ho Hing Kay Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies - Charles Merewether Index
