Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists.

Caroline Turner is a curator and academic who has written extensively on contemporary Asian art and is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University
Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor in Creative Practice and Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra

1. Frameworks and contexts
2. The artist as cultural and political activist
3. War, violence and divided societies
4. Globalisation and identity: the challenge of a globalising world
5. Worldmaking in art
Conclusion
Index