Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art
Explores the tension between an ancient culture's unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art reflects upon the complex relationship between ancient Tibet's artistic tradition of anonymity and contemporary artists' search for a voice in the present. This fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Philipp Hubert and copublished by ArtAsiaPacific and Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, includes texts by exhibition curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, curator and writer David Elliott and Tibetan cultural activist Jamyang Norbu. Participating artists Penba Wangdu, Tenzing Rigdol and Tsherin Sherpa also contribute essays sharing personal insight into their artistic practice.

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art" at Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, which features more than fifty works of painting, sculpture, installation, and video art by twenty-seven Tibetan artists. The exhibition runs from July 20 through December 15, 2013, and will later travel to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the Queens Museum of Art, New York.

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Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art
Explores the tension between an ancient culture's unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art reflects upon the complex relationship between ancient Tibet's artistic tradition of anonymity and contemporary artists' search for a voice in the present. This fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Philipp Hubert and copublished by ArtAsiaPacific and Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, includes texts by exhibition curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, curator and writer David Elliott and Tibetan cultural activist Jamyang Norbu. Participating artists Penba Wangdu, Tenzing Rigdol and Tsherin Sherpa also contribute essays sharing personal insight into their artistic practice.

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art" at Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, which features more than fifty works of painting, sculpture, installation, and video art by twenty-seven Tibetan artists. The exhibition runs from July 20 through December 15, 2013, and will later travel to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the Queens Museum of Art, New York.

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Explores the tension between an ancient culture's unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art reflects upon the complex relationship between ancient Tibet's artistic tradition of anonymity and contemporary artists' search for a voice in the present. This fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Philipp Hubert and copublished by ArtAsiaPacific and Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, includes texts by exhibition curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, curator and writer David Elliott and Tibetan cultural activist Jamyang Norbu. Participating artists Penba Wangdu, Tenzing Rigdol and Tsherin Sherpa also contribute essays sharing personal insight into their artistic practice.

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art" at Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, which features more than fifty works of painting, sculpture, installation, and video art by twenty-seven Tibetan artists. The exhibition runs from July 20 through December 15, 2013, and will later travel to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the Queens Museum of Art, New York.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780984562572
Publisher: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Publication date: 07/26/2013
Series: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 7.80(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

David Elliott , an independent curator of contemporary art, has been the director at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Istanbul Modern in Turkey. Jamyang Norbu is a writer and activist based in Nashville.

Table of Contents

Preamble
Donald Rubin

Preface
Sara J. Pasti

Introduction
Tom Finkelpearl

Anonymous
Rachel Perera Weingeist

What If? Pitfalls of Identity in a Slippery Age
David Elliott

Beyond Icons and Iconography Speculations on the Origins of Nontraditional Art in Tibet
Jamyang Norbu

Tradition and the Modern World
Penba Wangdu

Some Thoughts on Why I Make the Kind of Artwork I Make
Tenzing Rigdol

Bodhi in the Mirror
Tsherin Sherpa

Video Open Call
Rachel Perera Weingeist

Acknowledgments
Artist Biographies
Bibliography

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