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Author Yamamura, Midori

Title Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles Art in East and Southeast Asia
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (277 p.)
Series The Cold War in Asia Ser
The Cold War in Asia Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Locating Asian art in the Cold War -- Note to readers -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Part I: Joining the game: Trauma and regionalism -- Chapter 1: "The New Chinese Landscape" in the Cold War era -- The geopolitics of the exhibition -- The rise of the Fifth Moon -- The new landscape painting -- The exhibition and its reception -- Conclusion -- Notes
Chapter 2: Before and beyond the Cold War: Visual accounts of the "Secret War" in Laos (Pha Khamfan's collection of photographs and Terry Wofford's paintings of planes) -- "Oblique, riven by silences": images as deathly and unyielding -- "Of benefit both to its receiver and its donor": Pha Khamfan's collection of photographs -- "The emotional side of flying": Terry Wofford's paintings of planes -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Affects, trauma, and experimental art in New Order Indonesia, 1970-1977 -- Introduction -- The anti-communist killings and Indonesia's cultural trauma
Mapping trauma: affect and the collective memory of 1965-66 -- Artistic rebellion and traumatic affect: FX Harsono and Bonyong Munny Ardhie -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Asia's Cold War and environmental devastation: Kidlat Tahimik and Roberto Villanueva's neo-indigenous response in the Philippines and beyond -- The perfumed nightmare -- "Waste nothing" aesthetics -- Bagong Sibol ang Gubat ( The forest is newly grown) -- The Baguio Arts Guild -- Ephemeral art: Villanueva's sustainability aesthetics -- Healing Our Planet Earth (HOPE) after Hiroshima, 1995 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes
Chapter 5: Imagining a region: Australian exhibitionary turns to Asia in the late Cold War -- White Australia -- Vietnam, Americanization, and internationalism -- Gough Whitlam and the geographical turn -- Homegrown internationalism: Biennale of Sydney -- Conclusion: postcolonialism and a new regionalism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Part II: Visual gallery and primary documents -- Chapter 6: FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE -- Story about a rape victim -- How Japanese think of Okinawans -- Why photography? -- Akabana -- Why identify with Black culture? -- Chapter 7: Dinh Q Lê: Works and primary documents
Dinh Q Lê, photo-weaving work -- The farmers and the helicopters, 2006 -- South China Sea Pishkun, 2009 -- Chapter 8: Reconfiguring history -- Historical background -- Bone cemetery -- Mass graves -- Feeling insecure -- Arts and pilgrimage to history -- Description of artworks 4 -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Voyage into the COLD SEA -- The Kris Project (2016 to 2020) -- Notes -- Chapter 10: From cities into the mountains and the fields: An archaeology of lives in dark ruins -- Notes -- Part III: The continuous Cold War
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 11: Survival tactics within Cold War ideologies: Post-Mao artists on the tides of globalization
Form Electronic book
Author Li, Yu-Chieh
ISBN 9781000405859
1000405850