Category: Arts Theory and Criticism

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Indigenous Spirituality of Chinese Oil Painters in Europe in the Early 20th Century

The Chinese painters who studied in France in the early 20th century produced many oil painters with an indigenous style, …

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Pan-Asianism in Twentieth-Century Indian and Japanese Art: The Resilience of a Shared Artistic and Cultural Heritage

The artistic exchanges of the early twentieth century in India and Japan which defined the trajectory of Asian modernism were …

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No Hands, No Feet: Power in the Art Vision of Bahman Mohasses

As one of the most famous contemporary Persian sculptors, two subjects are important in the work of Bahman Mohasses: the …

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The Emergence of Change Through Embracing Freedom: Agent Art

Contemporary art may not be formulated as one thing, however, instead of generating new propositions, its reproduction and aestheticization of …

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Ruby Chisti’s “Free Hugs”: Claiming Spaces Through Utopian Feminist Futures

This paper focuses on Chishti's artwork entitled Free Hugs (2002), a three-dimensional installation consisting of ten half life-size female fabric …