Overview
- Includes authors and corresponding perspectives from archivists to artists, curators, scholars and activists
- Renders a more sophisticated and comprehensive investigation in the field
- Goes beyond the artist/artwork-based methodology of examining the past and present of art archives in Asia
Part of the book series: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (CEAVCSP)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Accumulation and Creation: The Birth of Archive
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Deconstruction and Recreation: Artist, Curator and Researcher on Archive
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The Public and Imagination: Archive as Self-Portrait of Community
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About this book
This edited volume aims to fill the gap in the research, juxtaposition, and focused discussions in the existing literature on art archives in Asia. Most of the archives included in the book are independent and initiated by individuals, folk groups, or non-profit organizations. In this book, one can trace the dynamics and self-generative capacity in this particular historical and cultural milieu through these “alternative” archives and through the practices of artists and curators who apply their specific understanding of archive to their works. Many chapters resonate with each other in that they capture the experiences shared by many places in Asia. Those experiences could have resulted from the encounter with the Western idea of archive, the influence of the colonial experience, or a memory crisis triggered by the rapid transformation of media, and may serve as a basis for producing archive theories in/from Asia. The book provides an opportunity for the archives in Asia and those who work around them to recognize one another, understand what their colleagues in archival work do, how they do it and what else there is for them to do.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lu Pan is Associate Professor at Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The (Im)possibility of Art Archives
Book Subtitle: Theories and Experience in/from Asia
Editors: Lu Pan
Series Title: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5898-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5897-9Published: 03 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5900-6Due: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5898-6Published: 02 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-7701
Series E-ISSN: 2662-771X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 356
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 94 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts, Asian Politics, Audio-Visual Culture, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Culture