ART HISTORY :
The Aporias of Modernization in Southeast Asia
The Visual Art Study Program of ITB, supported by The Getty Foundation, the University of Sydney and ITB,s Soemardja Gallery, recently organized an international seminar on art history and visual culture in Southeast Asia, titled ,Gathering of Histories.,
December 4, 2012
The participants to the seminar came from Singapore, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Netherlands and host country Indonesia. Malaysian gallery owner Valentine Willie asked the first pertinent question: Who is telling what, how, to whom and for what reasons? Artist and art historian Nguyen Quan from Vietnam, added: in what language do we tell the histories of art in this region? Opting for English inherently limits some of the participants and a
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