Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories

This special issue of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, on the topic of gender and its intersections with art history, emerges and extends from numerous discussions held during the Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories Nelson, Clare Veal and Stephen H. Whiteman, with invaluable support from numerous staff at the Power Institute and elsewhere in the University of Sydney. While we were inspired by the symposium in Sydney, this issue is emphatically not a conventional conference proceeding discussed there. Rather, as editors we have taken the Sydney event as one among several points of departure. A number of contributors to this special issue were presenters in Sydney and have substantially reworked their research for publication here. Several other contributors challenge or even productively contradict and undermine the conversations that took place during the event.     

Citation: 
Low, Yvonne, Roger Nelson and Clare Veal. "Editorial Introduction: Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories." Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Vol. 3 no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-11. Project MUSE, doi: 10.1353/sen.2019.0000