ArtAsiaPacific No.21, 1999

Commentary

20 MOBO MOGA Modernity in Japanese art 1910-1935 – Kae Shigeno

22 A SILENT REVOLUTION? Chinese women’s art in Beijing – Francesca Dal Lago

25 RUPA MALAYSIA A decade of Malaysian art in London – Laura Fan

27 A NEW MEETING PLACE IN THE PACIFIC Centre Culturel Tjibaou, Noumea – Dionissia Giakoumi

29 CREATING TOGETHER The inaugural exhibition at Centre Culturel Tjibaou – Karen Stevenson

32 FACES FROM THE PAST First Nations masks of Canada – Paula Gustafson

34 VIRTUAL DAYDREAMS Three exhibitions of Asian art in Los Angeles – M.A. Greenstein

36 POSTCARD FROM PAKISTAN – Alison Carroll

38 CROSSCURRENTS Indian, Norwegian and British artists in Oslo – Mariann Komissar

Essays

40 INTERDIGITATING REIHANAMATIONS Lisa Reihana’s video weavings – Maud Page

44 IN PRAISE OF MAD SHADOWS Tokihiro Sato’s revealing photographs – Robert J. Fouser

50 BODY AND SOUL Pinaree Sanpitak and the art of life – Dionissia Giakoumi

58 WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND The art of Guan Wei – Claire Roberts

66 A SURVEY OF ASIAN COMIC ART – John A. Lent

72 CONJURING THE WORLD Ravinder Reddy’s sculptural emblems – Kamala Kapoor

Reviews

Toshio Shimizu on ‘Yoin: Reverberations between Australia and Japan’; Jonathan Goodman on Sang Nam Lee; Susan Bright on ‘Contemporary Art from China, Japan and Vietnam’; Philip O’Toole on ‘Pasifika’; Daisuke Miyatsu on Shimabuku; Scarlet Cheng on Luise Fong; Anna Miles on Ani O’Neill; Suhanya Raffeli on Nalini Malani: Medeaprojekt; Iola Lenzi on Southeast Asian Art: A New Spirit.