Modern in Southeast Asian Art
A Reader
ISBN: PB: 9789811406645,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
August 2023
350 pp., 23,5x17,5 cm
350 pp., 23,5x17,5 cm
Who spoke of the modern? When was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection features texts spanning the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. They...
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£72.00
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History and Imagination
Modern Photography from Singapore
ISBN: PB: 9789811806315,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
September 2022
116 pp., 27,9x19,0 cm, photos
116 pp., 27,9x19,0 cm, photos
History and Imagination presents the works of four Singapore photographers: Tan Lip Seng, Lee Lim, Lim Kwong Ling and Lee Sow Lim. These amateur photographers were active members of camera clubs in the 1950s and 1960s, a period of rapid political and...
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£25.00
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Artist Speaks
Kim Lim
ISBN: PB: 9789811451782,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
March 2022
128 pp., 23,0x16,0 cm, illus.
128 pp., 23,0x16,0 cm, illus.
Known primarily as a sculptor who produced abstract wooden pieces and stone-carved works, Kim Lim channelled natural materials into paradoxical expressions of stillness and motion, substance and weightlessness. Her practice explores the relationship...
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£20.00
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Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission
Charles Lim
ISBN: HB: 9789811486012,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
November 2021
70 pp., 24,0x20,0 cm
70 pp., 24,0x20,0 cm
The fifth catalogue in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series includes full-colour images of the installation, a curatorial essay by curators Russell Storer and Qinyi Lim, an interview with the artist and an essay by Ackbar Abbas that continu...
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£14.00
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Asian Modern
ISBN: PB: 9789811406072,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
October 2021
500 pp., 23,5x17,5 cm
500 pp., 23,5x17,5 cm
In this expansive study, John Clark draws on decades of his research on modern art cultures across Asia from 1850 to the present day. The Asian Modern uses an artist-centric approach, by way of meticulous case studies, to create a new comparative par...
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£35.00
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Jaafar Latiff
In the Time of Textile
ISBN: PB: 9789811480010,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
October 2021
120 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
120 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
Something New Must Turn Up is a series of six catalogues comparing the practices of artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore. Through their groundbreaking explorations of media, ranging from collage and printmaking to installation and digi...
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£20.00
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Eng Tow
The Sixth Sense
ISBN: PB: 9789811480058,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
July 2021
144 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
144 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
Something New Must Turn Up is a series of six catalogues comparing the practices of artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore. Through their groundbreaking explorations of media, ranging from collage and printmaking to installation and digi...
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£20.00
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Georgette Chen
At Home in the World
ISBN: HB: 9789811449222,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
July 2021
208 pp., 29,0x23,0 cm
208 pp., 29,0x23,0 cm
Paris, Shanghai and New York: Georgette Chen, one of Singapore's foremost artists, once counted these cultural capitals as home and cut her teeth as a painter there. Chen eventually found in Singapore "a veritable paradise", enchanted by its tropical...
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£30.00
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Mohammad Din Mohammad
The Mistaken Ancestor
ISBN: PB: 9789811480027,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
July 2021
160 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
160 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
Something New Must Turn Up is a series of six catalogues comparing the practices of artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore. Through their groundbreaking explorations of media, ranging from collage and printmaking to installation and digi...
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£20.00
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Goh Beng Kwan
Nervous City
ISBN: PB: 9789811480034,
Prestel Publishing,
National Gallery Singapore,
July 2021
116 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
116 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm
Something New Must Turn Up is a series of six catalogues comparing the practices of artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore. Through their groundbreaking explorations of media, ranging from collage and printmaking to installation and digi...
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£20.00
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