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Art & trousers : tradition and modernity in contemporary Asian art
\"An illustrated collection of more than thirty essays and 640 color images, Art and Trousers moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers. This book presents a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, varying its focus on the impacts of invention, tradition, exchange, colonization, politics, social development, and gender. David Elliott spotlights the practice of many leading global artists of the early twenty-first century, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Rashid Rana, Bharti Kher, Makoto Aida, Chatchai Puipia, and Yeesookyung, among many others. Art and Trousers offers insight into the development of a key curatorial practice for our times, and it will be an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary art and the way it operates across borders\"--Publisher's website.
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Art and Trousers
An illustrated collection of essays on modern and
contemporary Asian art by a key figure of the international
contemporary art world. An illustrated collection of more
than thirty essays and 640 color images, Art and Trousers
moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual
artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers. This book presents
a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, varying its
focus on the impacts of invention, tradition, exchange,
colonization, politics, social development, and gender. David
Elliott spotlights the practice of many leading global artists of
the early twenty-first century, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai
Guo-Qiang, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Rashid Rana, Bharti Kher, Makoto
Aida, Chatchai Puipia, and Yeesookyung, among many others. Art
and Trousers offers insight into the development of a key
curatorial practice for our times, and it will be an essential
resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary art and the
way it operates across borders.
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