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This volume challenges existing notions of what is “Indian,” “Southeast Asian,” and/or “South Asian” art to help educators present a more contextualized understanding of art in a globalized world. In doing so, it (re)examines how South or Southeast Asian art is being made, exhibited, circulated and experienced in new ways in the United States or in regions under its cultural hegemony. The essays presented in this book examine both historical and contemporary transformations or lived experiences of monuments and regional styles (sites) from South or Southeast Asian art in art making, subsequent usage, and exhibition-making under the rubric of “Indian,” “South Asian,” “or “Southeast Asian” Art. Bokyung Kim is Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi, USA. Her current research involves several topics in the early interactions between Java (Indonesia) and the mainland of Southeast Asia. Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of Art History at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art and design, diaspora of Asian artists, and Asian American visual culture.
Art—Study and teaching. --- Teachers—Training of. --- Southeast Asia—History. --- Art—History. --- Creativity and Arts Education. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- History of Southeast Asia. --- Art History. --- Art, South Asian. --- Art, Southeast Asian. --- Southeast Asian art --- South Asian art --- Art --- Teachers --- Southeast Asia --- Study and teaching. --- Training of. --- History. --- Art history --- History of art --- Teacher education --- Teacher training --- Teachers, Training of --- Art education --- Education, Art --- Art schools --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Education
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In Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography. Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera. A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.
Dancers --- Portrait photography. --- Ram Gopal, --- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library --- Photograph collections. --- Ram Gopal, Carl Van Vetchen, photography, photography analysis, artistic analysis, cultural reflections, cameras, Nikon cameras, cheap video camera, cheap photography camera, NYC photoshoots, NYC activism, LGBT rights, LGBT activism, homoeroticism, cultural interactions, Canon cameras, global interactions, South Asian art, South Asian history, Indian culture, Indian art, Indian dancing, cross-cultural art, multicultural art, dance photography, dancing.
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