Asian Art History in the Twenty-first Century

by Edited by Vishakha N. Desai

• ISBN13: 9780300125535
• ISBN10: 0300125534
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-03-11
• Publisher: Clark Art Institute

Summary

With essays by Frederick M. Asher, Melissa Chiu, John Clark, Gao Shiming, Yukio Lippit, Saloni Mathur, Kaja M. McGowan, Rana Mitter, Alexandra Munroe, Jerome Silbergeld, Kavita Singh, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Akira Takagishi, and Gennifer Weisenfeld 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 art on American art, and public art and memory of war in contemporary China. The authors also consider what new theoretical structures must be created to suit the realities of the twenty-first century and Asian art today.

Author Biography

Vishakha N. Desai is president of the Asia Society, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Forming the Canons
The Shape of Indian Art History	p. 3
The East Asian Architectural Canon in the Twenty-First Century	p. 15
Changing Views of Change: The Song-Yuan Transition in Chinese Painting Histories	p. 40
Negative Verisimilitude: The Zen Portrait in Medieval Japan	p. 64
Love, Death, and Shifting Patronage in Bali during the 1930s: Two Spatial Models Meet "Face to Face" on Painted Threads of Sound	p. 96
Institutions, Aesthetics, Politics
Aesthetics, Modernity, and Trauma: Public Art and Memory of War in Contemporary China	p. 123
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	p. 138
Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism	p. 149
Micrology: The Micropolitics in Chinese Contemporary Art	p. 169
New Histories, New Futures
Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World	p. 181
American Art and the East: An Exhibition Proposal	p. 199
An Expanded Chinese Art History	p. 211
Histories of the Asian "New": Biennales and Contemporary Asian Art	p. 229
Contributors	p. 251
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