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Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary (MIT Press)
David Teh
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Description for Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary (MIT Press)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 color illus., 25 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 3JM; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 15. .
The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but Thainess remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since ... Read more
The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but Thainess remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262035958
SKU
V9780262035958
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About David Teh
David Teh, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, is an independent curator and critic who has organized exhibits in Europe, Australia, and across Southeast Asia.
Reviews for Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary (MIT Press)
This is a thoroughly researched and focused book, the only one to look seriously at contemporary Thai art and its relationship to its nation. It is a welcome corrective to the Western assumption that Thai works are happily Buddhist, always characterised by the Thai smile. -The Burlington Magazine