Book Reviews

 

TITLE: Staging Art and Chineseness: The politics of Trans/Nationalism Author: Jane Chin Davidson PUBLICATION DATe: December 2019 PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press DETAILS: 224 pages, 54 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-5261-3978-8 REVIEW PUBLICATION: Journal of Curatorial Studies 11:2 (December 2022): 256-58

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

June 2021

TITLE: INSURGENT AESTHETICS: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War Author: Ronak K. Kapadia PUBLICATION DATe: October 2019 PUBLISHER: Duke University Press DETAILS: 352 pages, 93 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-4780-0401-1 (Paper) REVIEW PUBLICATION: GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2021) 27(3): 488-491

 

Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas

2019

title:unruly Vision: Aesthetic Practices of the queer diaspora
author:
Gayatri Gopinath
publication date:
2018
PUBLISHER:
duke university press
details:
248 pages
ISBN:
978-1-4780-0028-0 (hardcover)

review Publication:
Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 5:3 (2019): 397-400. Special Issue challenging hegemony within the South Asian Diaspora, guest edited by Jaishri Abichandani, Santhi Kavuri Bauer, and Anuradha Vikram

Hyperallergic

May 14, 2019

title:How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for change
author: allan desouza
publication date: 2018
PUBLISHER: duke university press
details: 336 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0036-5 (hardcover)

review Publication:Hyperallergic, May 14, 2019 (translated into Chinese.)

 

Art History: Journal of the Association for Art History

2012

title:Contemporary art and the cosmopolitan imagination
author
: Marsha Meskimmon
publication date:
2011
PUBLISHER: Routledge
details: 132 pages, 16 colour plates & 15 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-415-46919-7 (hardcover)

review publication:art history: journal of the association for art history - ”The Promise of Cosmopolitanism: Contemporary Art, Ethics and Imagination in a Global World”

Journal of South Asian Popular Culture

2004

title:Dangerous Designs: Asian Women Fashion the Diaspora Economies
author
: parminder bhachu
publication date:
2004
PUBLISHER: Routledge
details: 196 pages
ISBN: ISBN 0-415-07220-4 (hardcover)

review Publication:South Asian Popular Culture,Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2008, 81–82