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An introduction / Low Sze Wee -- Address of art : vicinity of region, horizon of history / Patrick D. Flores -- 1. When was modernism? : a historiography of Singapore art / Kevin Chua -- 2. The 19th-century "origins" of Singapore art / Kwa Chong Guan -- 3. Colonial art as a space of the Asian modern / John Clark -- 4. The Javanese painter Raden Saleh (c. 1811-1880) : a star in the firmament of Indonesian modern visual art / Marie-Odette Scalliet -- 5. Towards a history of the Asian photographer at home and abroad : case studies of Southeast Asian pioneers Francis Chit, Kassian Céphas and Yu Chong / Gael Newton -- 6. Pre-war (1886-1941) art activities of the Chinese community in Singapore through a narrative framework of diasporic bonds / Yeo Mang Thong -- 7. A "forgotten" art world : the Singapore art club and its colonial women artists / Yvonne Low -- 8. Balinese modernism / Adrian Vickers -- 9. The birth of 'fine art' in Southeast Asian, 1900-1945 / Ushiroshoji Masahiro -- 10. Conditions of freedom, contingencies of art / Patrick D. Flores -- 11. The transistion of Thai traditional art to modern art in the 1950s and 1960s / Somporn Rodboon -- 12. Landscape painting in Indonesia : continuity and change in President Sukarno's collection / Susie Protschky -- 13. Conflict and denial : the discourse of identity in Indonesian art, 1950s-1980s / Aminudin TH Siregar -- 14. Lim Hak Tai points a third way : towards a socially engaged art by the Nanyang artists, 1950s-1960s / Seng Yu Jin -- 15. The woman and the vista : intimate revolt of the cultural left / Simon Soon -- 16. Cultural wars in Southeast Asia : the birth of the critical exhibition in the 1970s / Seng Yu Jin -- 17. Reading conceptual art in Southeast Asia : a beginning / T.K. Sabapathy -- 18. The Singapore contemporary and contemporary art in Singapore / C.J.W.-L. Wee -- 19. Continuity and change : Vietnamese art in the age of Đô#x92;i Moi / Nora A. Taylor -- 20. Unpacking the legacy of an exceptional artist from Myanmar : Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990) / Yin Ker -- 21. Emergenc(i)es : history and the auto-ethnographic impulse in contemporary Cambodian art / Ashley Thompson -- 22. Rhetorical postures and the photographic condition : a minor Malaysian detour / Adele Tan -- 23. Undoing the global : contemporary art of Singapore / June Yap -- 24. Drafting history : meditation on location, institutions and myth-making in visual arts in postcolonial Singapore / Venka Purushothaman -- 25. Metonym and metaphor, islands and continents : reflections on curating contemporary art from Southeast Asia / Lee Weng Choy -- Figures 1.1 to 25.5 -- Notes on contributors. |
