American Art in Asia

Michelle Lim is Assistant Professor at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology.

1. American Art as Cultural Hegemony: 1945–1989

Kyunghee Pyun

PART I: Post-War American Art in Postcolonial Asia

2. Leaving Yourself Behind: Bourke-White, Zarina, and the Partition of British India

Asma Naeem

3. What Can Ad Reinhardt Teach Us About Asian Art?

Michael J. Hatch

4. Painting as Information: The Reception of Abstract Expressionism in Japan

Kenji Kajiya

5. Minimalism: A View from Singapore

Russell Storer

PART II: American Artists in Asia Today

6. The (im)Possibilities of Cultural Collectivity: American Artist in Setouchi

James Jack

7. Rare Earth Image Bank: Extraction Geology and Stock Photos, from Wyoming to Inner Mongolia

David Kelley

8. Interstates and Inner States: Howard Henry Chen

Việt Lê

Part III: Locating Asia in American Art

9. Mapping Lee Mingwei’s Transnational Art Practice

Leslie Ureña

10. American War in Việt Nam: We Are Besides Ourselves

Hồng-Ân Trương

11. America in China: Cross-cultural Confluences in Contemporary American Art

Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe

PART IV: Connecting Asia and the Americas in the Global South

12. Buying and Selling American Taste: Pop Art and the Inscription of Violence as Artistic Strategy in Colombia

Jennifer Burris

13. Considering Dhaka Art Summit from a CHamoru Perspective: A Walk Through its Institutional History

Diana Campbell

14. The Artpologists: Rethinking Food Justice in Central Asia

Zhanara Nauruzbayeva

15. Points of Intersection: Realigning Future Art Histories

Michelle Lim