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We are delighted that CAST – Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, RMIT – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/contemporary-art-and-social-transformation) will be hosting a book launch for Kerry Nguyen-Long’s Vietnam Visual Arts in History Religion & Culture in Melbourne on Thursday 26th October 2023.
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Date and Time
Thursday 26th October 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm AEDT
Location:
First Site Gallery
Building 16 – Storey Hall
344 Swanston St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Event Description
Join us for the launch of the new publication by author
Kerry Nguyễn-Long – Vietnam Visual Arts in History Religion
& Culture
Vietnam has a long and rich visual culture which deserves greater recognition free from dated misunderstandings. In a broad survey this new book Vietnam Visual Arts in History Religion & Culture significantly revises, updates and expands on the theme introduced in Arts of Việt Nam 1009 – 1945 published in 2013 to present new developments and archaeological finds. It explains Vietnam’s distinctive iconography and inclusive belief systems and how they manifest in the visual arts, its syncretic and pantheistic culture and its place within the larger vibrant visual culture.
The text is amply illustrated with over 300 colour images, many full-page, highlighting architecture, statuary, metalcraft, jade and ivory
carving, lacquer craft, furniture, inlay work, woodblock printing, painting, and ceramics across almost a thousand years. Different techniques used by artisans are explained. A short retrospective chapter brings the book to its conclusion.
Art historian Kerry Nguyễn-Long has lived and worked in Asia since the 1970’s. A passionate advocate of Vietnam’s visual arts, since the introduction of the policy of đổi mới in 1986 she has made frequent visits to, as well as long sojourns in, Vietnam to further her research. Her writings on Vietnam have appeared in books, arts magazines, and museum journals. She is an author, co-author, and a contributor to books, and for nearly two decades has been a contributing editor of the Hong Kong-based international magazine Arts
of Asia.
This event is produced in collaboration with CAST RMIT