PUBLICATIONS
ANONYMOUS: Contemporary Tibetan Art
By Rachel Weingeist
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 co-published by ArtAsiaPacific and Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, includes texts by exhibition curator Rachel 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 over 50 works of painting, sculpture, installation and video art by 27 Tibetan artists. The exhibition runs from July 20–December 15, 2013, and will later travel to The Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Queens Museum of Art, New York and finally at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art
ISBN 978-0-9845625-7-2
Hardcover, 176 pages, full color illustration and six essays.
TRADITION TRANSFORMED
Curated by Rachel Weingeist
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond features nine Tibetan artists—Dedron, Gonkar Gyatso, Losang Gyatso,Kesang Lamdark, Tenzin Norbu, Tenzing Rigdol, Pema Rinzin, Tsherin Sherpa and Penba Wangdu—who are trained in traditional painting and the strict interpretations prescribed by Buddhist religio-spiritual formulas and artistic norms, from which they break by experimenting with alternative media, and extracting sacred symbols from their religious context, repurposing them for their own self-expression. Included are essays by HG Masters, Michael R. Sheehy, and Anna Bremm, as well as an interview with Paola Vanzo of the Trace Foundation in New York.
The catalog is co-published with the Rubin Museum of Art for the occasion of the exhibition of the same title running June 19-October 18, 2010.
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
ISBN 978-0-9845625-0-3
Hardcover, Coptic binding
10.5 × 7.5 × 0.75 inches, 1.13 Lbs
Pages 184, 83 full color illustrations, three essays and one interview.
English
Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Collection of Shelley & Donald Rubin
With essays by Rebecca M. Brown and Susan S. Bean
This is the first publication of this collection of more than 50 works from 28 of India's most famous artists, including Francis Newton Souza, Sakti Burman and Seema Kohli.With imagery from all walks of life, from the poorest citizens to dynamic deities, the works of Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest focus on India’s people: individual characters gazing back at us, men and women inhabiting spaces urban and rural, kneeling bodies meditating and praying. India’s modern and contemporary art affirms that the modern is global. “These works celebrate everyday life in South Asia and its diasporas, from the most mundane moments to the most transcendent,” said curator Rebecca M. Brown, author of Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (Duke University Press, 2009) and Associate Professor in the History of Art and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
The catalog is co-published with Oglethorpe University Museum of Art for the occasion of the exhibition of the same title running March 15 – May 15, 2011. Designed by Roxana Gonzalez
ISBN 978-0981480442
Paperback
11.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches
Oglethorpe University; 1St Edition edition (2010)