by Loredana Paracciani –

Scholarly focus on contemporary Thai art in English is relatively recent and mostly conducted within a regional framework where Thai Art is approached as part of the wider Southeast Asia.

This paper extends the study of Thai art towards local invesitgation, that is, to focus on emerging Thai artists in order to examine which are(if any) the common themes and methodologies fostered by young art practitioners… (more in PDF article)

Loredana Paracciani graduated from the MA Asian Art Histories programme in 2011.

This essay was originally published on the Asia Research Institute website http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=WP&pubid=2118