| ISBN |
0300125534 (Yale : alk. paper) |
| 9780300125535 (Yale : alk. paper) |
| 0931102731 (Clark : alk. paper) |
| 9780931102738 (Clark : alk. paper) |
| Title |
Asian art history in the twenty-first century / edited by Vishakha N. Desai |
| Publisher |
Williamstown, MA : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007 |
| Physical desc. |
xiii, 253 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Clark studies in the visual arts |
| Note |
"This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference, 'Asian art history in the twenty-first century', held 27-29 April 2006 at the Asia Society, New York, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts" -- T.p. verso. |
| Distributed by Yale University Press. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Vishakha N. Desai -- Pt. 1: Forming the canons. The shape of Indian art history / Frederick M. Asher -- The East Asian architectural canon in the twenty-first century / Nancy S. Steinhardt -- Changing views of change: the Song-Yuan transition in Chinese painting histories / Jerome Silbergeld -- Negative verisimilitude: the Zen portrait in medieval Japan / Yukio Lippit -- Love, death, and shifting patronage in Bali during the 1930s: two spatial models meet 'face to face' on painted threads of sound / Kaja M. McGowan -- Pt. 2: Institutions, aesthetics, politics. Aesthetics, modernity, and trauma: public art and memory of war in contemporary China / Rana Mitter -- 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 / Akira Takagishi -- Reincarnations of the museum: the museum in an age of religious revivalism / Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh -- Micrology: the micropolitics in Chinese contemporary art / Gao Shiming -- Pt. 3: New histories, new futures. Reinscribing tradition in a transnational art world / Gennifer Weisenfeld -- American art and the east: an exhibition proposal / Alexandra Munroe -- An expanded Chinese art history / Melissa Chiu -- Histories of the Asian 'new': biennales and contemporary Asian art / John Clark. |
| Subject |
Art, Asian -- Historiography -- Congresses |
| Art criticism -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Desai, Vishakha N. ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute |
| Meeting Name |
Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century . (2006 : , New York, N.Y.) |
| Clark Conference |
