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David Teh
Thai Art
Currencies of the Contemporary
2017. 296 S. 24 col/ 25 black & white ill. 235 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MIT PRESS 2017
ISBN: 0-262-03595-2 (0262035952)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-262-03595-8 (9780262035958)
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Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but "Thainess" remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since 1992 (and noting that art history and criticism have lagged behind the market in recognizing it), he describes the competing claims to contemporaneity, as staked in Thailand and on behalf of Thai art elsewhere. He shows how the values of the global art world are exchanged with local ones, how they do and don´t correspond, and how these discrepancies have been exploited.
David Teh, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, is an independent curator and critic who has organized exhibits in Europe, Australia, and across Southeast Asia.