Re-imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation

Editor: Shaheen Merali
Format: Softcover, 170 x 240mm
363 pages
Saqi Books, 2008
ISBN: 0863566537
ISBN-13: 9780863566530
Price: £ 19,99

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“Re-Imagining Asia” brings together a wide-ranging group of contemporary artists and thinkers who explore the cultural and artistic imagination of Asia. The contributors investigate the tensions between tradition and modernity through the visual image and the written word. This timely collection includes works by artists based in Asia as well as artists from the diaspora, such as Chiho Aoshima, Subodh Gupta, Andreas Gursky, Kimsooja, Michael Joo, Gabriel Orozco and Song Dong with essays by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranjit Hoskote, Carol Yinghua Lu and Wu Hung among others.