Overview

Taiwan’s quest for identity and international recognition have unequivocally been the most important issues in Taiwan over the past 40 years, and they continue to generate impassioned debate, nationally and internationally. This book explores the instrumental roles artists, curators and museums have played in Taiwan’s nation-building process. It focuses on the post-martial law period, from 1987 until 2010, a transformative period when democratization gave rise to a heightened sense of Taiwanese nationalism, and when issues concerning Taiwan’s identity vis-à-vis with China, peaked.

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Author:   Sophie McIntyre
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004733350

ISBN 10:   9004733353
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Note on Transliteration Acknowlegments Introduction Part 1 Exhibiting Taiwan art and the Politics of Museums, Identity and Recognition (1987–2000) 1 Rethinking History, Identity and Nation in Exhibitions of Taiwan Art 2 Reaching Out to Asia and the World: Regionalism and Internationalism in the (Re)presentation of Taiwan Art Part 2 Artist Case Studies 3 Deconstructing the Nation – Mei Dean-E 4 Narrating the Nation – Yang Mao-lin 5 Whose Identity and Whose Nation? – Wu Mali 6 The Nation De-mythologised – Yao Jui-chung Part 3 Globalisation and the Rise of China in the World: New Frameworks for Exhibiting Art from Taiwan (2000–10) 7 Decentring the Nation: Reconfi guring the Local as Global in the Taipei and Venice Biennials 8 Reorienting Taiwan: China’s Global Ascent and the ‘Art’ of Cross-Strait Exchange Conclusion Endnotes Glossary Bibliography Index

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This study cracks open wide a new perception of Taiwan and its artistic contribution to the public. [McIntyre] has capably documented and explained her original discovery of Taiwan’s international entrance to the world of art in a publication which measures 7”x 10”, weighs three pounds, consists of 300 pages with 200 well-chosen illustrations of art work, [..] enhanced by a fine writing style … Richard Kagan in Critical Asian Studies February 15, 2019 Sophie McIntyre’s Imaging Taiwan: The Role of Art in Taiwan’s Quest for Identity (1987–2010) is a useful and authoritative source. […] good, solid, and comprehensive. [This book] effectively and wonderfully brings a ‘pragmatic’ imagination for us to reconsider the relationship between art and politics in contemporary art in Taiwan. Hsin-tien Liao in International Journal of Taiwan Studies 2.2 ( Sept 2019) pp. 377-395

Author Information

Sophie McIntyre is a scholar and curator of art from the Asia-Pacific, with expertise in art from Greater China. She received her Ph.D. from the Australian National University (2013) and has lectured and held fellowships in universities in Australia, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. She has also curated more than 30 exhibitions, several of which featured art from Taiwan. Her texts have been widely published in books, journals, and catalogues in Australia and internationally.

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