Asia Through Art and Anthropology

Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Illustrations List of Color Plates Foreword - Howard Morphy, the Australian National University, Australia Introduction - Fuyubi Nakamura, Tama Art University, Japan, Morgan Perkins, the State University of New York-potsdam, USA, and Olivier Krischer, Australian National University, Australia Part One: Art, Location and Travel Asian Artists as Long Distance Cultural Specialists in the Formation of Modernities - John Clark, the University of Sydney, Australia In and out of Place: Tibetan Artists' Travels in the Contemporary Art World - Clare Harris, University of Oxford, UK Imagining 'Asian' Aesthetics in Colonial Hanoi: the cole Des Beaux-arts De L'indochine (1925-45) - Phoebe Scott, University of Sydney, Australia Coming Home: How 're-entry' Shaped the Work of a Contemporary Woman Artist in Taiwan - Natalie Seiz, the University of Sydney, Australia Painting on Location: Lin Haizhong and Contemporary Chinese Painting - Morgan Perkins, the State University of New York-Potsdam, USA Part Two: Artists' Voices Catching the Moment, One Step at a Time - Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Independent Artist, Sydney, Australia Lifting Words, Floating Words - Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Independent Artist, Canberra, Australia Typologic: Interactions Between the Intellect and the Senses - Chihiro Minato, Tama Art University, Japan Part Three: Image, Representation and Performance Some Indian 'Views of India': the Ethics of Representation - Christopher Pinney, University College London, UK Fragile Polyphony: Takeda Taijun's Longing for Asia through the Landscape of Shen Congwen - Barbara Hartley, the University of Tasmania, Australia Unframing the Nation: The Moving Image and Its Parergon in Southeast Asia- David Teh, National University of Singapore, Singapore The 'Nationality' of Lolita Fashion - Masafumi Monden, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia The Impossibility of Performing 'Asia' - Catherine Diamond,

Fuyubi Nakamura is an anthropologist affiliated with Institute for Art Anthropology at Tama Art University, Japan. Morgan Perkins is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Art and Director of the Museum Studies Program at the State University of New York-Potsdam, USA. Olivier Krischer is a postdoctoral fellow with the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University, Australia.

An original and wide-ranging collection that unravels the complexities of the category of translation in Asian art and aesthetics. The varied contributions by art historians, anthropologists, and artists explore multiple Asian perspectives on the translation and interpretation of art both in theory and practice. This engaging and attractive book will be of enormous value to scholars and students of Asian art and aesthetics, cultural translation, and of globalization, art and aesthetics. James McHugh, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Asia through Art and Anthropology highlights the lives of Asian visual artists through their life experiences and oeuvres, carving out a role for them as the negotiators of meaning in hybrid cultural situations. The book deepens our understanding of cultural expressions which are local yet transcultural, individualized yet cross borders. Arne Rokkum, Professor, Univesity of Oslo, Norway