Yang, Alice, 1961-1997

Why Asia? : contemporary Asian and Asian American art / Alice Yang ; edited by Jonathan Hay and Mimi Young. - viii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-151).

Editors' Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Four Artists -- Letting Go: The Work of Rirkrit Tiravanija -- MSG: The Processed Art of Michael Joo -- Xu Bing: Rewriting Culture -- Interview with Hou Chun-ming -- Reviews -- On Kawara -- Long Chin-san -- Bing Lee -- Ping Chong -- Sowon Kwon's Interior Schemes -- Chen Zhen -- A Group Show: We Are The Universe -- Looking for the Identity of Korean Art -- Disorienting Territories -- The Plurality of Contemporary Asian Art -- Critical Essays -- Godzilla: The Anarchistic Lizard -- Asian American Exhibitions Reconsidered -- Siting China: On Migration and Displacement in Contemporary Art -- Why Asia? -- Beyond Nation and Tradition: Art in Post-Mao China -- High and Low: The Cultural Space of Contemporary Taiwanese Art -- Modernism and the Chinese Other in Twentieth-Century Art -- Bibliography -- Credits.

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Art, Asian
Art, Asian--20th century
Asian American art
Art, American--20th century

N7260. / Y36 1998

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