The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Art in Global Asia

A comprehensive guide to developments in Asian art over the past 20 years, "Global Asia" offers an ambitious, entertaining, and accessible exploration of contemporary art within the context of global economic, social, political, and intellectual change. Including a diverse range of essays by scholars and artists, the anthology provides a plural account of art and its contexts, appealing to scholars and students in art history, art practice, curation, contemporary art, fine art, cultural studies, and globalization studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 284 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This extensive compilation of freshly commissioned essays offers an ambitious, engaging, and accessible guide to the developments in Asian art over the past two decades of the era of globalization. The term 'global Asia' signifies the genesis and evolution of contemporary art within the context of global economic, social, political, and intellectual change associated with the end of the Cold War, decolonization, the emergence of postcolonial societies and cultures, and the rise of a global contemporary art world. In the handbook, its editors establish the theoretical, geographical, and historical parameters within which the contemporary visual arts of 'global Asia' may be described, analyzed, and evaluated. The collected chapters present a diverse, multiauthored, heterogeneous, and genuinely plural account of art and its contexts. The democratic and inclusive character of globalization is reflected and produced within this anthology, which includes different styles of writing as well as varieties of analytic and thematic focus.

The anthology will appeal to both scholars and students in art history, art practice, curation, contemporary art, fine art, cultural studies, and globalization studies.

Weight: 703g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032258515