Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Art in Global Asia

<p>This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious entertaining and accessible guide to developments in Asian art over the past 20 years of the epoch of globalization. </p><p>The term ‘global Asia’ signals the genesis and evolution of contemporary art within the context of global economic social political and intellectual change related to 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 in an extended introductory section and in four section introductions the theoretical geographical and historical parameters within which the contemporary visual arts of ‘global Asia’ may be described analyzed and evaluated. The collected chapters provide 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. </p><p>The anthology will appeal to both scholars and students in art history art practice curation contemporary art fine art cultural studies and globalization studies.</p>