Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Asian - General

Most renowned for his cast paper murals developed in the 1970s, Cheung Yee (b. 1936) is widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary art movement in Hong Kong. His artistic innovativeness and contributions have also won him The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member class (MBE) in 1979 conferred by the Queen of England. Not only has he staged over 100 exhibitions world-wide, Cheung is also the only living artist in the history of Hong Kong to have been specially invited to hold 3 solo-exhibitions at the prestigious Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Cheung was professor of...

One of the most progressive and radical new artists to emerge in Asia, Budi Ubrux (b.1968) is less a visionary than an acerbic social reactionary. Prior to winning the Philip Morris Indonesian Art Award in 2000, Budi Ubrux was a billboard artist and painter in Switzerland.

His paintings are powerful satirical observations on social degeneration through the alarmingly haunting aesthetic of faceless figures mummified in newsprint. Inspired by the Indonesian government's transitional period from the "Orde Baru" (New Order) to the "Orde Reformasi" (Reformation Order) in 1999 and its...

Wucius Wong was born in 1936 in Guangdong Province, China, and moved to Hong Kong at a very young age. Originally, he wanted to pursue a literary career, but gradually shifted his interest in pursuit of an artist's career. Started as a self- taught artist and attracted to Western modernism, he later studied under the tutelage of Lui Shou-Kun in 1958, whose works entailed the exploration of traditional concepts via a modernist approach. He went to the United States to study Western art forms from 1961 to 1965. Upon his return, he worked as an Assistant Curator at the City Museum and Art...

The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters--Ding Cong (1916-2009), Feng Zikai (1898-1975), Li Keran (1907-89), Li Kuchan (1898-1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), and Shi Lu (1919-82)--during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a time when they were considered counterrevolutionary and were forbidden to paint. Drawing on interviews with the artists and their families and on materials collected during her visits to China, Shelley Drake Hawks examines their painting styles, political outlooks, and life experiences.

These fiercely...

This spectacular collection of nearly 200 jeweled weapons and priceless accoutrements from the Indian subcontinent was assembled over many decades by Sheikh Nasser and Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah for The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. Produced for aristocratic patrons who valued the arts, these richly decorated edged weapons and other princely objects bear witness to the legendary opulence and refinement of the Indian courts during the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Many incorporate decorative features originating in Central Asia, the Iranian world, China, and even Renaissance Europe,...

A pioneering artist in painting, film, photography, video art and performance, Indian artist Nalini Malani (born 1946) is a transition figure between the modern and contemporary art of her country.

Her work, which criticizes the political situation in India, is based not only on an iconography typical of the subcontinent's culture, but also on Western artistic and literary tradition.

Published for the Centre Pompidou's major retrospective, this book presents works from 1969-2017, covering almost five decades of her oeuvre. For this occasion, she revived a...