What is the place of realism in Asian art histories?
What is the ‘real’?
How do reality and realism relate and differ?
The six essays in this present volume explore the manifestations of realism in Asian art, relating this art of description to issues of colonialism, world and civil wars, nation building, religion and contemporary culture in Asia. This is the first volume in a series that focuses on Asian art history and criticism.
The book includes plates of 33 paintings from the exhibition Realism in Asian Art.
ISBN:978-981-08-5349-5
Published by The National Art Gallery, Singapore.
88 pages, S$25
Looks Real, For Real, As Real
Kwok Kian Chow ‘Real’ Tension
Tsutomu Mizusawa The (Un)Real
Jim Supangkat Style in Southeast Asia: A Political History
Patrick D. Flores Realism as Metaphor and Attitude: Imaginative Geographies of the Rural
Seng Yu Jin Cold War Ideology and Realism
Kim Youngna
