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Hai Shuet Yeung: Innovation in Abstraction | 9781872843179 & 9781872843117

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This book is focused on the career of the self-made artist, Hai Shuet Yeung, MBE.

Hai Shuet Yeung, born in 1936 in China's Guangdong (Canton) province, is credited with introducing radical ideas and practices into painting at a time when artistic communities in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan agonise over the future of the genre into the 21st century. His "crumpled paper" technique makes brushwork almost redundant.

His images challenge widely accepted notions of perspective, composition and scale. Yeung's abstractions are accessible as 'landscapes,' 'moonscapes' or fantastic magnifications of minute parts which can be viewed from unexpected angles—sideways or even upside down—or reduced into multiple independent images.

A British resident since 1969, Hai Shuet Yeung is a prolific painter. Hundreds of paintings created by this Grimsby-based artist have ranged in style from classical and scholarly to abstract expressionist. His most recent work has evolved into innovative and complex abstracts produced with an individual technique.

Yeung’s paintings represent a significant point of departure for modern painting—and not only in a Chinese context.

The images that he seems to create with wonderful ease have an astonishingly varied vocabulary, layers of meaning and significance, and command a universal appeal. The fact that he has endeavoured to refresh and renew media, technique as well as the subject matter of his painting sets Yeung apart from contemporaries known for variations on guohua, the traditional Chinese painting, or western-inspired abstractions.

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Beyond Frontiers: Contemporary British Art by Artists of South Asian Descent | 9781872843216

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Beyond Frontiers marks the first ever attempt to survey the work of contemporary British artists whose ancestral roots lie in the countries and cultures of South Asia. For some, their links with the subcontinent remain present and immediate; for others, they are a barely perceptible trace, filtered through generations of exile and migration.

	Beyond Frontiers: Contemporary British Art by Artists of South Asian Descent Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba, eds 2001 288pp. Laminated softcover with jacket ISBN-13 9781872843216 GBP 24.95 Saffron Asian Art and Society Series: ISSN 1740-3103 Serries Editor: Sajid Rizvi Shipping weight: 1,200 g
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About Beyond Frontiers
Although more has been written in recent years about South Asian artists in Britain, including numerous articles in Eastern Art Reportonline and print magazine, Beyond Frontiers marks the first attempt to survey the work of contemporary British artists whose ancestral roots lie in the countries and cultures of South Asia. For some, their links with the Subcontinent remain present and immediate; for others, they are a barely perceptible trace, filtered through generations of exile and migration.

Always lively, often provocative and lavishly illustrated, the book contains a heady mix of scholarly essays, interviews, artists' texts and specially commissioned works.

As the editors state, Beyond Frontiers aims, once and for all, to unsettle pat assumptions about the meaning and significance of ethnic origin to artists' contribution to contemporary culture and experience. There are as many different voices here, as many different approaches to art and culture as there are contributions to the book Artists of three generations join eminent critics, cultural theorists and art historians to explore visual art now, against a backdrop of the centuries-old intertwining of East and West that informs many of the most vibrant manifestations of British and European contemporary culture.

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• Introduction
• Preface
• Walking in Crusoe’s footsteps: Margins and mainstreams in critical theory | TANIA V GUHA
• Artist’s pages and a poem | NILOFAR AKMUT
• Indian artists and the Raj: Westernisation and nationalism (1850–1947) | PARTHA MITTER
• To kill two birds with one stone | SUTAPA BISWAS
• Artist’s pages | CHILA KUMARI BURMAN | SONALI FERNANDO
• Freedom and restriction: nothing is far away, everything is near ... | JAGJIT CHUHAN
• Artist’s pages | MOHINI CHANDRA
• Mohini Chandra: Travels in a new world | ELIZABETH EDWARDS
• The transcending vision: another story | AMAL GHOSH
• Face to face: an interview with Zarina Bhimji | TANIA V GUHA
• Artist’s pages | NINA EDGE
• Ukasian: nina edge | JOHN BRADY
• Hair of the dog? | SONALI FERNANDO
• Artists’ pages | KEITH KHAN and ALI ZAIDI
• (looking backward) looking forward | KEITH KHAN
• Artist’s pages | AMAL GHOSH
• Part of the universal story | AMAL GHOSH
• Artist’s pages | BALRAJ KHANNA
• Artist’s pages | PERVAIZ KHAN
• Virtual visions | PERVAIZ KHA
• Towards reaching kundalini | MANJEET LAMBA
• I carry my village with me | PRAFULLA MOHANTI
• Going native: revisited | SHAHEEN MERALI
• Mirror, mirror on the wall ... |JACQUES RANGASAMY
• Challenging the passive venus | USHA PARMAR
• A link with tradition | ANU PATEL
• The autobahn | SUTAPA BISWAS
• The patterns of culture i currently wear | GURMINDER SIKAND
• Interactive moving images | SYMRATH PATTI
• Can someone translate? I want to speak | VEENA STEPHENSON
• Projections of authenticity | journeys through identity, diaspora and british south asian film | IAN IQBAL RASHID
• The restless search | SHANTI THOMAS
• Humanoid | IBRAHIM WAGH
• Here and now 1 | Amal Ghosh in conversation | SAJID RIZVI
• here and now 2 | juginder lamba in conversation | SAJID RIZVI
• Afterword | AMAL GHOSH & JUGINDER LAMBA
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index

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Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora 9781872843223

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About Displacement and Difference
The book offers the first survey of its kind of the work of women artists of Arab descent based in the Middle East, Europe and North America.

This ground-breaking volume in Saffron Asian Art and Society series brings together artists, curators, critics and scholars from a range of geographies who engage with the multiplicity and diversity of Arab identities imaged by contemporary Arab artists in the diaspora. Centring on images produced by artists working in the diasporas of Britain, the Arab world and the United States, the authors rethink the processes which constitute ‘belonging’ (and therefore ‘unbelonging’) through gender, geographies, race, ethnicity, religion and sexuality, the specificities of different diasporic spaces, and the multiple ways in which shifting and intersecting points of identification are negotiated and re-presented in contemporary visual art practices.

Moving beyond issues of the gaze and the ‘other’ this volume offers new ways of considering the complex interplay between the cultural politics of location, memory, and embodiment through an investigation of the specificities of difference and displacement in the long neglected area of contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.

About the Editor
Fran Lloyd is Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University, London. Trained as an art historian at the University of Manchester, she has published widely on contemporary visual culture. Editor of Deconstructing Madonna, Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present, and co-editor of Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture, she is contributing a forthcoming chapter in Feminist Visual Culture. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and difference in contemporary art in Britain and in Japan.

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• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Images, Diasporas and Difference. Fran Lloyd. 10
• 2 Internationalism and Art: Re-evaluating the Concepts of Beauty and Individuality. Els van der Plas. 24
• 3 American-Arab Artists and Multiculturalism in America. Salwa Mikadadi Nashashibi. 32
• 4 Mobile Identity and the Focal Distance of Memory. Sabiha Khemir. 42
• 5 Our Bodies, Our Orient and Art. Mai Ghoussoub. 52
• 6 Palestine Art: Imaging the Motherland. Tina Sherwell. 62
• 7 Enacting Vision: a Personal Perspectives. Houria Niati. 74
• 8 Re-Making Ourselves: Art, Memories and Materialities. Fran Lloyd. 81
• Artists' Biographies. 157
• Artists' Bibliographies. 181
• Contemporary Arab Art: General Bibliography. 189
• List of Illustrations. 197
• Notes on Contributors. 201
• Index. 203

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• Published	London: 2001
  Published by	Saffron Books [EAP London]
  Edition	First Edition
  ISBN-13	9781872843223
  ISBN-10	1872843220
  ISSN	1740-3103 | Asian Art and Society Series
  Binding	Soft Cover, no Jacket
  Number of pages	208
  Distributed by	Saffron Distribution

   

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Angry Words Softly Spoken: A Comparative Study of English and Arabic Women Writers | 9781872843933

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Angry Words Softly Spoken: A Comparative Study of English and Arabic Women Writers, by Alanoud Alsharekh, deals with the concept of feminism as a cross-cultural literary device that uncovers the social development of women’s emancipatory progress through the work of both English and Arab female novelists.

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