Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Southeast Asian contemporary art : characteristics, framing and importance
  • The early contemporary shift in Southeast Asia : messy politics, new art
  • The formative 1980s : strengthening Southeast Asian contemporary art aesthetics
  • Art and resistance in the early-1990s : from Tiananmen to urbanisation
  • Southeast Asian contemporary art at millennium turn : finance and regime change
  • Southeast Asian contemporary art in the 21st century : from fringes to mainstream
  • Conclusion. Local origins, global agency.