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Charting Thoughts
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A constellation of thoughts by 25 established and emerging scholars who plot the indices of modernity and locate new coordinates within the shifting landscape of art. These newly commissioned essays are accompanied by close to 200 full-colour image plates.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title Page
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  1. Contents
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  1. An Introduction
  2. Low Sze Wee
  3. pp. 7-11
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  1. Address of Art: Vicinity of Region, Horizon of History by Patrick D. Flores
  2. Patrick D. Flores
  3. pp. 12-21
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  1. 1 When Was Modernism? A Historiography of Singapore Art
  2. Kevin Chua
  3. pp. 22-33
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  1. 2 The 19th Century "Origins" of Singapore Art
  2. Kwa Chong Guan
  3. pp. 34-49
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  1. 3 Colonial Art as a Space of the Asian Modern
  2. John Clark
  3. pp. 44-65
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  1. 4 The Javanese Painter Raden Saleh (c. 1811-1880): A Star in the Firmament of Indonesian Modern Visual Art
  2. Marie-Odette Scalliet
  3. pp. 60-83
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  1. 5 Towards a History of the Asian Photographer at Home and Abroad: Case Studies of Southeast Asian Pioneers Francis Chit, Kassian Cephas and Yu Chong
  2. Gael Newton
  3. pp. 78-97
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  1. 6 Pre War (1886-1941) Art Activities of the Chinese Community in Singapore through a Narrative Framework of Diasporic Bonds
  2. Yeo Mang Thong
  3. pp. 90-113
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  1. 7 A "Forgotten" Art World: The Singapore Art Club and its Colonial Women Artists
  2. Yvonne Low
  3. pp. 104-123
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  1. 8 Balinese Modernism
  2. by Adrian Vickers
  3. pp. 120-135
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  1. 9 The Birth of 'Fine Art' in Southeast Asia, 1900-1945
  2. Ushiroshoji Masahiro
  3. pp. 130-143
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  1. 10 Conditions of Freedom, Contingencies of Art
  2. Patrick D. Flores
  3. pp. 140-159
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  1. 11 The Transition of Thai Traditional Art to Modern Art in the 1950s to 1960s
  2. Somporn Rodboon
  3. pp. 154-169
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  1. 12 Landscape Painting in Indonesia: Continuity and Change in President Sukarno's Collection by Susie Protschky
  2. Susie Protschky
  3. pp. 164-179
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  1. 13 Conflict and Denial: The Discourse of Indentity in Indonesian Art, 1950s-1980s
  2. Aminudin TH Siregar
  3. pp. 174-187
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  1. 14 Lim Hak Tai Points a Third Way: Towards a Socially Engaged Art by the Nanyang Artists, 1950s-1960s
  2. Seng Yu Jin
  3. pp. 188-207
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  1. 15 The Woman and the Vista: Intimate Revolt of the Cultural Left
  2. Simon Soon
  3. pp. 202-217
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  1. 16 Cultural Wars in Southeast Asia: The Birth of the Critical Exhibition in the 1970s
  2. Seng Yu Jin
  3. pp. 218-239
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  1. 17 Reading Conceptual Art in Southeast Asia: A Beginning
  2. T.K. Sabapathy
  3. pp. 232-247
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  1. 18 The Singapore Contemporary and Contemporary Art in Singapore
  2. C.J.W.-L. Wee
  3. pp. 246-269
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  1. 19 Continuity and Change: Vietnamese Art in the Age of Doi Moi
  2. Nora A. Taylor
  3. pp. 268-283
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  1. 20 Unpacking the Legacy of an Exceptional Artist from Myanmar: Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990)
  2. Yin Ker
  3. pp. 278-297
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  1. 21 Emergenc(i)es: History and the Auto-Ethnographic in Contemporary Cambodian Art
  2. Ashley Thompson
  3. pp. 292-309
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  1. 22 Rhetorical Postures and the Photographic Condition: A Minor Malaysian Detour
  2. Adele Tan
  3. pp. 304-327
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  1. 23 Undoing the Global: Contemporary Art of Singapore
  2. June Yap
  3. pp. 318-335
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  1. 24 Drafting History: Meditation on Location, Institutions and Myth-Making in Visual Arts in Postcolonial Singapore
  2. Venka Purushothaman
  3. pp. 328-335
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  1. 25 Mentonym and Metaphor, Islands and Continents: Reflections on Curating Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia
  2. Lee Weng Choy
  3. pp. 336-352
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  1. Notes on the Contributors
  2. pp. 479-483
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  1. Copyright
  2. p. 358
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  1. Errata and Addenda
  2. pp. 359-360
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