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"How do we embark on a history of art that proceeds from the assumption of a global majority? Taking as a rhetorical departure the construct of Afro Asia which doubles as both an ontological reference and an epistemological intervention, this book centers the worlds Black and Asian artists initiate through their work. Afro Asia breaks down delineated time into points, trajectories, angles, magnitudes and relative positions so that temporality and chronology figure primarily as questions of geometry: it asks if and how we can we be something other than what biology, politics, culture, and economics tells us we are or must become. Spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, this book challenges the institutionalization of contemporary art as a global enterprise increasingly governed by the judgments of a self-selecting minority"--

Comprised entirely of police surveillance footage initially used to prosecute violators of anti-sodomy laws, William E. Jones's 2007 film Tearoom embodies the potential value of regarding law itself an artistic medium. The viewing experience it offers contends that when we regard images as artworks, that is, as both a separate, imagined realm and as a specific configuration of materials free of any preordained practical function, we are then most able to grasp law's dependence on the aesthetic choices of its agents, and in turn, law's own materiality. Such discernment reflects a more productive relationship between visual art and the law, one founded on symbiosis rather than on decided antagonism or indifference.

In this article Joan Kee asks what motivated artists in South Korea to turn to performance in the late 1960s and 1970s during the oppressive regime of the Yushin, or 'restoration' government. By comparing the various approaches taken by different artists and groups, Kee examines the subtleties between action and inaction, considering what these both might mean during a period of political turmoil.

Among the most persistent and difficult problems in the field of copyright law is determining whether copying has actually occurred. This article responds to this challenge by proposing that judges and juries consider practices used in disciplines revolving around the close and methodical viewing of visual objects. Of special interest is connoisseurship, long employed by art historians, curators, and collectors to adjudicate the origins, provenance, and authenticity of art. Mindful of law's emphasis on the spoken and written word, this article focuses especially on the visual analyses of Otto Pächt and Hans Sedlmayr, two art historians whose foundational status in the discipline of art history stems from the extent to which they attempted to systematically translate the experience of looking into words. The article concludes with a brief test case drawn from the high-profile 2005 dispute between architects Thomas Shine and David Childs over the latter's alleged infringement of the former's design.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sounds Authentic? -- One Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC -- Two Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz -- 2. Popular Places -- Three. Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction -- Four Visual Reconnaissance -- Five Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru -- Six The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness -- 3. Consuming Cultures -- Seven Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences -- Eight Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media -- Nine Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture -- 4. Troubled Technologies -- Ten Asian American Auto/Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures -- Eleven Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois -- Twelve Race and Software -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index