1st Edition

Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles Art in East and Southeast Asia

Edited By Midori Yamamura, Yu-Chieh Li Copyright 2021
276 Pages 92 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 92 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 92 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as the world transitioned from the communist/capitalist ideological divide into the new global power structure under neoliberalism that started taking shape during the Cold War. The contributors to this volume investigate the visual art that emerged in... Read more

Part I. Joining the Game: Trauma and Regionalism  1. “The New Chinese Landscape” in the Cold War Era  2. Before and Beyond the Cold War: Visual Accounts of the “Secret War” in Laos (Pha Khamfan’s Collection of Photographs and Terry Wofford’s Paintings of Planes)  3. Affects, Trauma and Experimental Art in New Order Indonesia, 1970-1977  4. Asia’s Cold War and Environmental Devastation: Kidlat Tahimik and Roberto Villanueva’s Neo-Indigenous Response in the Philippines and Beyond  5. Australian Exhibitionary Turns to Asia in the late Cold War  Part II. Visual Gallery and Primary Documents  6. From Okinawa with Love  7. Works and Primary Documents  8. Reconfiguring History  9. Voyage into the COLD SEA  10. From Cities into the Mountains and the Fields: An Archaeology of Lives in Dark Ruins  Part III. The Continuous Cold War  11. Survival Tactics within Cold War Ideologies: Post-Mao Artists on the Tides of Globalization  12. Performance, Memory and Affect in Yamashiro Chikako’s Mud Man  13. Undoing Cold War Temporality: Transnational Adoption in Agnès Dherbeys’s Omone and Retired

 

Biography

Midori Yamamura is an Assistant Professor at CUNY Kingsborough.

Yu-Chieh Li is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University.