The Long Stare: seeing Contemporary Asian art now

The Long Stare: seeing Contemporary Asian art now

Vol 20 no 2, 2000


Survey of recent art from Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnem, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan as seen during the three editions of the Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery as well as flow-on from these events. A group of editors expert in different regions with writers from all over the Asia Pacific. Reviews


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The Enigma of Japanese Contemporary Art

Author: Dr Caroline Turner, feature

Japanese culture at the end of the twentieth century was at an intersection of past, present and future. Exhibitions including Against Nature at the Grey Art Gallery in New York (1989), Japanese Ways, Western Means at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane (1989), A cabinet of Signs at the Tate Gallery Liverpool (1991) and Zones of Love at the MCA Sydney (1991) showed for the first time the complex and urban basis of Japanese art in the 1980s, a time of considerable transition in Japanese art practice. Featured artists included Shigeo Toya, Kimio Tsuchiya, Yasamasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, Emiko Kasahara, Masato Nakamura, Yukinori Yanagi, Katsushige Nakahashi and Tatsuo Miyajima.



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