Beyond imperial aesthetics : theories of art and politics in East Asia /

Beyond imperial aesthetics : theories of art and politics in East Asia / edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe.

Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between "the West" and "Asia," the authors of this volume re-examine art and aesthetics to challenge these oppositions in or...

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Other Authors: Inoue, Mayumo (Editor), Choe, Steve (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, The University of Hong Kong, 2019.
Subjects:
Art > Political aspects > East Asia > History > 20th century.
Art > Political aspects > East Asia > History > 21st century.
Art > Political aspects.
East Asia.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: theorizing beyond Imperial aesthetics in East Asia / Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe. 1 Beyond boundaries: theorizing aesthetics in East Asia since 1945 : Asian theory and EUropean humanity: ont he question of "Anthropological Difference" / Naoki Sakai
  • COld War aesthetics in East Asia / Petrus Liu
  • The turn to Japan and return to war / Akira Mizuta Lippit. 2 Politics of the sensuous: love, bodies, and sexuality in East Asia : Male sexuality in the colony: on Toyokawa ZXen'ichi's "Searchlight" / Ikuo Shinjo
  • The grain of jade: woman, repression, and Fei Mu's "Spring in a Small Town" / Rey Chow
  • Corpo-reality in the Hong Kong new wave / Chang-Min Yu. 3 Disjunctive alignments: critical aesthetics and social movements in East Asia : On the form's edge: Adaniya Masayoshi's abstract paintings and biologics in US-occupied Okinawa / Mayumo Inoue
  • Reconciling the animal and the city in photography: Kim Kichan's works in 1970s Korea / Youngjune Lee
  • Performing absence, translating "China": disrupted history and performative identity in Stan Lai's Xiangsheng plays / Chun-yen Wang. 4 Beyond neoliberal borders: from biopolitical spaces to an affective community : Tange Lab and biopolitics: from the geopolitics of the living sphere to the nervous system of the nation / Yuriko Furuhata
  • Multitemporality between sovereignty and neoliberal governmentality: "A Single Spark" and "The Old Garden" / Jecheol Park
  • The affective multitude: toward a transcultural meaning of enlightenment / Jon Solomon. List of contributors
  • Index.

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