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Published by ArtAsiaPacific, distributed by NUS Press  Cultural historian David Elliott is a key figure of the international contemporary art world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In his work as a curator and museum director since his groundbreaking exhibitions in the 1980s at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Elliott has contributed to the global conversation on art through biennales and major exhibitions from Stockholm to Shanghai, Kyiv to Sydney, and as the founding director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and Istanbul Modern. A collection of more than 30 essays, fully illustrated with more than 640 colour images, Art & Trousers moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers, presenting a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, and focusing on the various impacts of invention, tradition, exchange, colonization, politics, social development, and gender. Elliott spotlights the practice of many leading global artists of the early 21st 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 & Trousers offers insight into the development of a key curatorial practice for our times, and is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary art and the way it operates across borders.

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Author:   David Elliott ,  Vishakha N. Desai
Publisher:   ArtAsiaPacific Publishing
Imprint:   ArtAsiaPacific Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9780989688536

ISBN 10:   0989688534
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   06 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  PROLOGUE  / Vishakha N. Desai  ME AND MY TROUSERS  / Foreword by David Elliott   Part 1  / HISTORIES   The Slippered Pantaloon   Going Global: Alterity and Other Things at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford  From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic: Modernity at a Time of Change   Tokyo–Berlin: A Continuing Dialogue from Empire to Democracy   Bye Bye Kitty!!! . . . : Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art   Heaven and Earth : Contemporary Art from the Center of Asia   Tibet : What If . . . ? Pitfalls of Identity in a Slippery Age   The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Contemporary Art along the Post-Soviet Silk Road   Part 2  / STORIES   Who is Wearing the Trousers?   KG Subramanyan: An Indian in Oxford  Jitish Kallat: Fugitive Moments of an Unacceptable Present  Rashid Rana: The Machinery of Truth   Naiza Khan: Image and Revelation  Xu Bing: Tradition, Representation and Language   Ai Weiwei: The Seeds of Time or the Sands of the Desert?   Song Dong: ""Art, My Last Hope.""   Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: ""Somewhere Beyond Rape and Adultery""   Xu Zhen: Chaos and Rectitude in the Face of History   Makoto Aida: The Surface of Things   Miwa Yanagi: The Four Ages of Woman   Chiharu Shiota: Time and Distance, Absence and Silence   Tomoko Kashiki: A Floating World  Heri Dono's Paradox: The Arrow or the Kris?   Chatchai Puipia's Last Masque: A Funerary Oration   Rodel Tapaya: ""The One You Feed""   Choi Jeong Hwa: Gangbuk Style   Yeesookyung: Reflections on a Korean Urn   Part 3  / MIGRATIONS   A Short History Of The Trouser   Cai Guo-Qiang: Earth, Air and Fire   Zeng Xiaojun: Labyrinths   Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Faces of Infinity   Leiko Ikemura: The House Beyond the Horizon   Nezaket Ekici: The World in a House  Rasheed Araeen: The Dancer and the Flame   Bharti Kher: Icebergs in India, Snowballs in Hell   EPILOGUE   INDEX

Reviews

Curator and scholar David Elliott, who was in at the birth pangs of global contemporary art over forty years ago, here uses his unparalleled knowledge of the field to produce a brilliantly original, provocative, and readable account. Polemically autobiographical and sanely sceptical, this is an essential read for those who want to know what the fuss is about, written with insight and humour by one of the first makers of the fuss. - Craig Clunas, FBA, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford

Named one of the Top 20 Best Art Books of 2021 by ARTnews ""Curator and scholar David Elliott, who was in at the birth pangs of “global contemporary art” over forty years ago, here uses his unparalleled knowledge of the field to produce a brilliantly original, provocative, and readable account. Polemically autobiographical and sanely sceptical, this is an essential read for those who want to know what the fuss is about, written with insight and humour by one of the first makers of the fuss."" - Craig Clunas, FBA, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford"" ""[B]eautifully produced collection of thirty-two essays [...] Elliott powerfully talks through the lives and works of artists situated in particular political histories [...] This is a beautiful gazetteer of contemporary Asian art, well referenced in history and its decentred account of the modern."" - THIRD TEXT ""The book is a catalyst for fresh historical and sociological thought [...] Such is the complexity of cultural exchange, as amply documented, at least in the aesthetic realm, by Elliott’s challenging and admirably cosmopolitan study."" - Art in America ""It is obvious that Elliott has carefully composed his essays and introductory text in Art and Trousers [...] As such, in many ways, the book will undoubtedly contribute strongly to the further development of a vigorous discourse on the different faces of contemporary Asian art."" - Real Tokyo

Author Information

David Elliott is a British cultural historian, curator, writer, and teacher who has been the director of modern art museums in Oxford, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Istanbul. He has taught art history at the University of Oxford, the Humboldt University, Berlin, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has been the artistic director of biennales of contemporary art in Sydney, Kyiv, Moscow, and Belgrade. A specialist in modern and contemporary Asian art, as well as in the Soviet and Russian avant-garde, he has published widely in these fields as well as on many other aspects of contemporary art. He is currently Curator at Large for the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (RMCA) in Guangzhou.

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