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AbstractAmong contemporary art's blind spots, few are as apparent as contemporary ink painting. Despite accounting for a considerable proportion of art making in East and Southeast Asia as duly reflected by a large and enthusiastic collector base, ink painting rarely figures in chronicles of contemporary art. Critics periodically expound on what they see as the medium's state of crisis or rebirth, while historians increasingly recognize the medium's contributions to canonical modernist movements such as Abstract Expressionism. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoan KeeJoan Kee is an assistant professor in the department of the history of art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The editor of a 2004 special issue of Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Duke University Press) on contemporary Asian art, she is currently at work on a manuscript titled "Tansaekhwa: What Contemporary Art Means in Korean."
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