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positions (2004) 12 (3): 611–641.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Reiko Tomii Historicizing “Contemporary Art”:
Some Discursive Practices in Gendai Bijutsu in Japan
Reiko Tomii
We now reach a point at which we should not relegate gendai into the generic
concept of contemporain, a point at which we should redeem...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 733–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Alice Ming Wai Jim 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art:
Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Over the last decade, contemporary art in Hong Kong, informed by travel-
(ing...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 267–285.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Boreth Ly This essay considers the significant role that Engaged Buddhism plays in contemporary art of Southeast Asia. It argues that this modern Buddhist intellectual movement, which came about in the 1960s in Southeast Asia as a response to political crisis in the world, merits visibility...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 417–420.
Published: 01 February 2012
... Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Traversing Thresholds — A Showcase of Contemporary Art
from Across Asia — Curated and Conceptualized by Maya Kóvskaya
As positions moves to consider all of “Asia,” the contemporary art world...
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 161–191.
Published: 01 February 2025
... to technological constraints, failed—to place Phnom Penh in live video contact with Fukuoka during a major art exhibition in the Japanese city, which was also the first instance of Cambodia's entrance into new Asian and global circuits of contemporary art. A second project, Leak Light Time Heat (2014...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 237–274.
Published: 01 February 2020
... ). Contemporary Women s Art in Hong Kong Reframed: Performative Research on the Potentialities of Women Art Makers Linda Chiu- han Lai Overview: Reframing the Question This research article is a feminist project, my practice of feminism as an artist- cum- scholar.1 On the one hand, I problematize the use...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 773–786.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Gao Minglu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Commentary
The Great Wall in Contemporary Chinese Art
Gao Minglu
Perhaps the most widely recognized visual symbol of China, the Great Wall
has functioned within China as a consistently changing sign...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 225–267.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Reiko Tomii Collectivism is a lively phenomenon in a rapidly globalizing world of contemporary art today. Artists' groups proliferate in many regions of the world, calling into question the modern myth of originality and individualism. These collectives actively explore new possibilities...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 713–744.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of art production as bifurcated from the remaking of everyday social relations and subjectivities, political and cultural possibilities, and the rural Chinese future. Grounded in a contextual analysis of the social turn in Chinese contemporary art and the lingering “rural problem” under post-socialism...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 19–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
... of feminism, the two phenomena, like the art world itself, are primarily urban. After surveying the accelerating progress made between 1910 and 1940, it interrogates, in light of contemporary art world patterns and current definitions of feminism, the slowing and even regression in recognition of women...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the contemporary art world. The author’s inquiry suggests that Yin’s reluctance to embrace her gender identity as central to her ecological art reflects her species-based environmental ethics that goes beyond identity politics. Yin’s ecological focus manifests her situated knowledge as a metropolitan resident...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and successful public housing jointly become
the state’s embodiment of a uniform urban space of “physical perfectibility.”6
A part of contemporary art practices in Singapore since the s has
been the exploration of the suppressed and socioeconomically...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2012
.... This anniversary issue showcases a wide range of contemporary art of “Asia.” Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Editor’s Introduction
positions: asia critique: twenty years...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Peggy Wang In studies of contemporary Chinese art, Lin Tianmiao’s work has been overwhelmingly discussed in terms of women’s crafts and maternal roles. Citing her use of embroidery and the female figure, these interpretations have led to broad and often simplified characterizations of her work...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 19–50.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Sudarat Musikawong The visual artwork produced about Thai contemporary political trauma constitutes a “trauma art” expressing a politics of loss—loss of life, loss of history, and loss of leftist memory. While much of the literature on 1970s violence and traumatic memory in Thailand has focused...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 February 2020
... in the English language, ultimately delving into the complex relationships among sex, gender, humanity, and art in contemporary China. Copyright 2020 Duke University Press 2020 contemporary Chinese art women artists feminist art and gender analysis References Jia Fangzhou . 2017...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 671–693.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., remembering, and contesting. This article pursues the prehistory of these images to critically address the recollection and reinvention of familial ties and bloodlines in contemporary Chinese art. The article studies a group of photographs taken during the second half of the Cultural Revolution, the early...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of the woman justify such sexualized attacks are reminiscent, in contemporary Korean culture, of the 2007 scandal of celebrated art curator Sin Jŏng-a. Sin falsified a doctorate degree from Yale University and managed to con influential art circles and high-ranking politicians, including the former prime...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 483–515.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Philip Kaffen In 1950 Nakai Masakazu, the vice librarian of Japan’s new National Diet Library, and philosopher trained in aesthetics at Kyoto Imperial University, published an essay on cinema and contemporary aesthetics. He saw the developments of the past half century as a massive uprooting...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 195–221.
Published: 01 February 2017
... permeability. For instance, neither the resurgence
of modernist-realisms in contemporary cinemas of Iran or Turkey nor the
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contemplative, critical engagements with the European art cinema...
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