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Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore Since the 19th Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 111

Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore Since the 19th Century

  • Categories: Art

Published to accompany National Gallery Singapore’s inaugural exhibition Siapa Nama Kamu?, the catalogue stands on the shoulders of giants to present a survey of Singapore art from the 19th century to the present, charting major themes across broad time periods. Over 400 works of art in a wide range of media are brought together to trace the ebb and flow of the history of Singapore art. Curatorial essays provide insight into the exhibition making, as well as examine the geographical confines of Singapore, the parameters of national identity and margins of time.

Between Declarations and Dreams
  • Language: en

Between Declarations and Dreams

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Strokes of Life: The Art of Chen Chong Swee
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Strokes of Life: The Art of Chen Chong Swee

  • Categories: Art

Chen Chong Swee is acknowledged as one of the earliest artists to have explored depicting Southeast Asian scenes within the medium of traditional Chinese ink painting. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at National Gallery Singapore, this catalogue bears witness to Chen’s explorations across the mediums of ink and oil, the influence his immediate surroundings had on his art, and his insistence, above all, that it was impossible to divorce art from life. Full-colour image plates, newly commissioned essays and a biographical timeline of the artist within the catalogue flesh out the inflections of Chen’s oeuvre.

Charting Thoughts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 487

Charting Thoughts

  • Categories: Art

A constellation of thoughts by 25 established and emerging scholars who plot the indices of modernity and locate new coordinates within the shifting landscape of art. These newly commissioned essays are accompanied by close to 200 full-colour image plates.

Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 91

Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century

  • Categories: Art

Years in the making, Between Declarations and Dreams is National Gallery Singapore’s inaugural exhibition of the art of Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present. This handsome catalogue tracks the broad time periods and thematic sections of the exhibition with more than 300 artwork images. These are accompanied by essays that provide curatorial insight to a task as monumental and intricate as the positing an art history of a region as diverse as Southeast Asia.

Chua Ek Kay
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Chua Ek Kay

  • Categories: Art

Chua Ek Kay is regarded as one of Singapore’s leading ink practitioners, celebrated for his distinctive visual vocabulary that bridges Chinese ink painting traditions and Western aesthetics. The catalogue, Chua Ek Kay: After the Rain, accompanies an exhibition at National Gallery Singapore that gathers a collection of works presenting momentous inflections in over three decades of the artist’s prolific practice. Essays illuminate Chua Ek Kay’s approaches to ink painting and underscore his contributions to its development in Singapore. The catalogue also includes a heretofore unpublished manuscript interview by Chua discovered posthumously in his study, as well as reflections by Mrs Chua Ek Kay.

Artist and Empire
  • Language: en

Artist and Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Organised by National Gallery Singapore in association with Tate Britain, Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies critically examines the effects of the British Empire through the prism of art. This catalogue accompanying the exhibition underscores the thought-provoking ways in which artist and Empire affect each other--artists negotiating historical conditions of colonialism in their work, and visual representation altering perceptions of the Empire. Essays by exhibition curators and external scholars situate the concept of Empire within broader socio-political discourse, while selected key artworks from the exhibition are paired with curatorial text that illumines concerns underpinning the works. A comprehensive, pull-out timeline spanning the 16th to 20th centuries charts the scope of activities undertaken in the name of the Empire, and contextualises the pursuits of artists from former colonies.

妙笔丹青
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

妙笔丹青

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Significant achievements in art notwithstanding, Chen Chong Swee was also a prolific, vivid essayist. His writings--collated here and also translated into English for the first time--range from the value of art education to the responsibilities of the art community, and are imbued with ardour and vigorous clarity. This compilation provides a compelling contribution to our understanding of the artist as a man of unwavering focus, whose thoughts cleaved to the advancement of art.

袖中有东海
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

袖中有东海

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Published in conjunction with Rediscovering treasures: ink art from the Xiu Hai Lo Collection, an exhibition organised by National Gallery Singapore"--Page 2.

Lim Cheng Hoe
  • Language: en

Lim Cheng Hoe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Lim Cheng Hoe stands out from most of Singapore's first-generation artists in many regards. He grew up and was educated in Singapore, and is considered to be a self-taught artist in the watercolour tradition. This exhibition catalogue examines and compares Lim's work with Chinese ink artist Chen Chong Swee, and seeks to explore the man beyond his art through his diary entries. It also republishes essays from previous Lim Cheng Hoe exhibition catalogues which are now out of print, and serves as a comprehensive resource of research around this significant Singapore artist.