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Title Asia through art and anthropology : cultural translation across borders / edited by Fuyubi Nakamura, Morgan Perkins and Olivier Krischer ; with a foreword by Howard Morphy
Published London : Bloomsbury, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages, 32 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Asia through art and anthropology; contents; list of images; contributors; preface; foreword; introduction: imagesof asia across borders; part i art, location, and travel; 1 asian artists as longdistanceculturalspecialists in theformation of modernities; 2 in and out of place: tibetan artists' travelsin the contemporary art world; 3 imagining "asian" aesthetics in colonialhanoi: the écoledes beaux-arts del'indochine (1925-1945); 4 coming home: how "reentry" shaped the work of a contemporary woman artist in taiwan; 5 painting on location: lin haizhong and contemporary chineseink painting
PART II ARTISTS' VOICES6 CATCHING THE MOMENT, ONE STEP AT A TIME; 7 LIFTING WORDS, FLOATING WORDS; 8 TYPOLOGIC: INTERACTIONSBETWEEN THE INTELLECTAND THE SENSES; PART III IMAGE, REPRESENTATION, AND PERFORMANCE; 9 SOME INDIAN "VIEWSOF INDIA": THE ETHICSOF REPRESENTATION; 10 FRAGILE POLYPHONY: TAKEDA TAIJUN'S LONGING FOR ASIA THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE OF SHENCONGWEN; 11 UNFRAMING THE NATION: THE MOVING IMAGEAND ITS PARERGON IN SOUTHEAST ASIA; 12 THE "NATIONALITY" OF LOLITA FASHION; 13 THE IMPOSSIBILITY OFPERFORMING "ASIA"; INDEX; Color Plate
Summary How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity, tradition and modernity have become fluid. Drawing on accounts of modern and contemporary art, film, literature, fashion and performance, it challenges established assumptions of the cultural products of Asia. Special attention is given to the role of cultural translators or 'long-distance cultural specialists' whose works bridge or traverse different worlds, with the inclusion of essays by three important artists who share personal accounts of their experiences creating and showing artworks that negotiate diverse cultural contexts. With contributions from key scholars of Asian art and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Art, Asian -- Historiography
Art and anthropology -- Asia
Acculturation -- Asia
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Sociology.
Theory of art.
Cultural studies.
Material culture.
ART -- History -- General.
Acculturation
Art and anthropology
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Nakamura, Fuyubi, 1974- editor
Perkins, Morgan, editor, author
Krischer, Olivier, editor
Morphy, Howard, writer of foreword.
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