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This book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and gender identity.
List of contents
1. American Art as Cultural Hegemony: 1945-1989
Kyunghee PyunPART I: Post-War American Art in Postcolonial Asia
2. Leaving Yourself Behind: Bourke-White, Zarina, and the Partition of British India
Asma Naeem3. What Can Ad Reinhardt Teach Us About Asian Art?
Michael J. Hatch4. Painting as Information: The Reception of Abstract Expressionism in Japan
Kenji Kajiya5. Minimalism: A View from Singapore
Russell StorerPART II: American Artists in Asia Today6. The (im)Possibilities of Cultural Collectivity: American Artist in Setouchi
James Jack7. Rare Earth Image Bank: Extraction Geology and Stock Photos, from Wyoming to Inner Mongolia
David Kelley8. Interstates and Inner States: Howard Henry Chen
Vi¿t LêPart III: Locating Asia in American Art9. Mapping Lee Mingwei's Transnational Art Practice
Leslie Ureña10. American War in Vi¿t Nam: We Are Besides Ourselves
H¿ng-Ân Tr¿¿ng11. America in China: Cross-cultural Confluences in Contemporary American Art
Michelle Yun MapplethorpePART IV: Connecting Asia and the Americas in the Global South12. Buying and Selling American Taste: Pop Art and the Inscription of Violence as Artistic Strategy in Colombia
Jennifer Burris13. Considering Dhaka Art Summit from a CHamoru
Perspective: A Walk Through its Institutional History
Diana Campbell 14. The Artpologists: Rethinking Food Justice in Central Asia
Zhanara Nauruzbayeva 15. Points of Intersection: Realigning Future Art Histories
Michelle Lim
About the author
Michelle Lim is Assistant Professor at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology.
Summary
This book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and gender identity.
