Anonymous

Contemporary Tibetan Art

By Rachel Perera Weingeist, David Elliott, and Jamyang Norbu

Subjects: Art
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Hardcover : 9780984562572, 176 pages, July 2013

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

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

Description

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.

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.