Resumen de Re-visioning Asian arts in the 1990s: reflections of a museum professional
Part of a special section on the problematics of collecting and display. The writer reflects on the display and perception of Asian arts in the West. She comments on the arguments in favor of viewing Asian art in its own terms and as fundamentally different from Western traditions. She also examines the need for exhibitions of this art to create a level of critical discourse that questions the standard interpretation and presentation of objects and adds more diverse dimensions to our understanding of them by providing specific historical, political, or cultural frameworks. She discusses the efforts of recent shows in this regard, the collecting of Asian art by Westerners, and the relative resistance of most Western centers of art toward contemporary Asian arts. She concludes by suggesting ways of approaching the study, exhibition, and acquisition of Asian arts in America as we approach the beginning of the next millennium.
