Thai art : currencies of the contemporary /

This book fills a resounding silence. It tells a story, as yet unknown, of great significance to the understanding of non-Western contemporary art in global circulation. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved remarkable international visibility, with a host of Thai artists winning criti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teh, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Travelling without moving : historicizing Thai contemporary art
  • Unstable currencies : art and the politics of sufficiency
  • Nirat : distance, itinerancy and homesickness as a spatial logic
  • Baramee : Thai relational art and the ethics of withdrawal
  • Unframing the nation : parergon and radical allegory
  • The preter-national : the Southeast Asian contemporary and what haunts it.