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Painters in Hanoi : An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art by Nora Annesley Taylor (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press

ISBN-100824833554

ISBN-139780824833558

eBay Product ID (ePID)71223781

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePainters in Hanoi : an Ethnography of Vietnamese Art

SubjectAsia / Southeast Asia, Asian / General, General

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Education, History

AuthorNora Annesley Taylor

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal759.9597

SynopsisPainting has played a significant role in modern Vietnam. Postage stamps, billboards, and annual national exhibitions attest to its fundamental place in a country where painters may be hailed as national heroes and include among their number fervent nationalists, propagandists, even dissidents. As Vietnamese painting has gained prominence in the contemporary transnational art circuits of Southeast Asia, many artists have become millionaires, yet Vietnamese painting is generally overlooked in art history surveys of the region. Nora Taylor sets out here to change that. Painters in Hanoi engages with twentieth-century Vietnam through its artists and their works, providing a new angle on a country most often portrayed through the lens of war and politics. Drawing on interviews with artists, cultural officers, curators, art critics, and others in Hanoi, Taylor surveys the impact artists have had on intellectual life in Vietnam. The book shows them within their own complex community, one fraught with tensions, politicking, and favoritism, yet also a sense of belonging. It describes their education, the role of the government in the arts, the rise and fall of individual artists, their influence as active players in the politics of place and gender, the audience for their work, and how tourism and the international art market have influenced it.