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Overview"In Return Engagements artist and critic Viet Le examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Viet Nam to rethink the entwinement of militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art. Highlighting artists tied to Phnom Penh and Sai Gon and drawing on a range of visual art as well as documentary and experimental films, Le points out that artists of Southeast Asian descent are often expected to address the twin traumas of armed conflict and modernization, and shows how desirable art on these themes is on international art markets. As the global art market fetishizes trauma and violence, artists strategically align their work with those tropes in ways that Le suggests allow them to reinvent such aesthetics and discursive spaces. By returning to and refashioning these themes, artists such as Tiffany Chung, Rithy Panh, and Sopheap Pich challenge categorizations of ""diasporic"" and ""local"" by situating themselves as insiders and outsiders relative to Cambodia and Viet Nam. By doing so, they disrupt dominant understandings of place, time, and belonging in contemporary art." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Viet LêPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9781478010388ISBN 10: 147801038 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 11 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Risky Returns, Restagings, and Revolution 1 1. What Remains: Silence, Confrontation, and Traumatic Memory 57 2. The Art Part: Việtt Kiều Artists, Divides and Desires in Sài Gòn 105 3. Personal and Public Archives: Fragments and (Post)Colonial Memory 150 4. Town and Country: Sopheap Pich's and Phan Quang's Urban-Rural Developments 189 Epilogue. Leaving and Returns 239 Notes 245 Bibliography 301 Index 315ReviewsVi?t Le moves the scholarly conversation about displacement away from the traditional state boundaries toward a much-needed examination of diaspora, (un)settlement, and return while offering a capacious rethinking of refugee-ness, displaced personhood, and diasporic selfhood. Return Engagements is a provocative and compelling work of curatorially driven art criticism. -- Cathy Schlund-Vials, author of * War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work * Viet Le writes with flair and passion of difficult subjects: war, trauma, the art and visual culture of the Vietnamese and Cambodian diasporas. With a critic's nuanced eye and a practitioner's sensitivity, his framings and readings of provocative, complicated work evoke the beauty of the artists' visions and yet always return us to the history and the present of the artists' lives, careers, and countries. Return Engagements is a brilliant work to which I will return. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of * The Sympathizer * Author InformationViệt Lê is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts and coauthor of White Gaze. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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