Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond

by Sarah Lee (Editor), Sara Siew

What is modernism in Southeast Asia? What is modern art, as embodied in the paintings of Southeast Asia? These questions and more are answered in Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Featuring 217 works, in full colour, by 51 Southeast Asian and European artists, from the Centre Pompidou and National Gallery Singapore, as well as other Southeast Asian collections in the region and beyond, this catalogue tells the compelling story of modernism as it developed across continents, and reveals artists' powerful, and sometimes surprising, responses to modernity.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Matthew Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book though serving as a catalogue changes our present views of modernism in the study of art. The former notion of Western-centric modernism that later spread out into Southeast Asia is now being challenged that modernism is rather an interlinked exchange between Western techniques and Southeast Asian aesthetics that honed the artists to indigenized their art.