American Art in Asia

<p>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.</p><p>Contributors examine both historical and contemporary instances in art practices and exhibition-making under the rubric of "American art in Asia." The book complicates existing notions of what constitutes American art, Asian American (and American Asian) art. As today’s production and display of contemporary art takes place across diffused borders, under the fluid conditions of a globalized art world since transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, new contexts and art historical narratives are forming that upend traditional Euro-American mappings of center-margins, migratory patterns and community engagement.</p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, American studies, Asian studies and visual culture.</p> <p>1. American Art as Cultural Hegemony: 1945–1989 </p><p><em>Kyunghee Pyun</em></p><p>PART I: Post-War American Art in Postcolonial Asia</p><p>2. Leaving Yourself Behind: Bourke-White, Zarina, and the Partition of British India</p><p><em>Asma Naeem</em></p><p>3. What Can Ad Reinhardt Teach Us About Asian Art? </p><p><em>Michael J. Hatch</em></p><p>4. Painting as Information: The Reception of Abstract Expressionism in Japan </p><p><em>Kenji Kajiya</em></p><p>5. Minimalism: A View from Singapore </p><p><em>Russell Storer</em></p><p><strong>PART II: </strong><strong>American Artists in Asia Today</strong></p><p>6. The (im)Possibilities of Cultural Collectivity: American Artist in Setouchi </p><p><em>James Jack</em></p><p>7. Rare Earth Image Bank: Extraction Geology and Stock Photos, from Wyoming to Inner Mongolia </p><p><em>David Kelley</em></p><p>8. Interstates and Inner States: Howard Henry Chen </p><p><em>Việt</em><em> Lê</em></p><p><strong>Part III: </strong><strong>Locating Asia in American Art</strong></p><p>9. Mapping Lee Mingwei’s Transnational Art Practice </p><p><em>Leslie </em><em>Ureña</em></p><p>10. American War in Việt Nam: We Are Besides Ourselves </p><p><em>Hồng-Ân Trương</em></p><p>11. America in China: Cross-cultural Confluences in Contemporary American Art</p><p><em>Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe</em></p><p><strong>PART IV: Connecting Asia and the Americas in the Global South</strong></p><p>12. Buying and Selling American Taste: Pop Art and the Inscription of Violence as Artistic Strategy in Colombia </p><p><em>Jennifer Burris</em></p><p>13. Considering Dhaka Art Summit from a CHamoru<strong> </strong>Perspective: A Walk Through its Institutional History </p><p><em>Diana Campbell</em> </p><p>14. The Artpologists: Rethinking Food Justice in Central Asia</p><p><em>Zhanara Nauruzbayeva</em></p><p> 15. Points of Intersection: Realigning Future Art Histories </p><p><em>Michelle Lim</em></p>